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Das Projekt HOLY SHIT – Auf ein Wörtchen über das stille Örtchen bringt ein Thema zur Sprache, das sonst eher selten in der Öffentlichkeit auftaucht: Unsere Scheiße hat Superkräfte – aber leider weiß das kaum jemand. Was steckt also wirklich hinter dem täglichen Geschäft? Lässt sich das Thema in der Öffentlichkeit thematisieren? Und kann man auf lokaler Ebene Lösungen für eines der größten Probleme unserer Zeit finden?
HOLY SHIT ist das Ergebnis meiner Masterarbeit im Studiengang Eco-Social Design und der Impuls sowie die Basis für ein langfristiges Projekt im Raum Südtirol.
Das Projekt HOLY SHIT – Auf ein Wörtchen über das stille Örtchen bringt ein Thema zur Sprache, das sonst eher selten in der Öffentlichkeit auftaucht: Unsere Scheiße hat Superkräfte – aber leider weiß das kaum jemand. Was steckt also wirklich hinter dem täglichen Geschäft? Lässt sich das Thema in der Öffentlichkeit thematisieren? Und kann man auf lokaler Ebene Lösungen für eines der größten Probleme unserer Zeit finden?
HOLY SHIT ist das Ergebnis meiner Masterarbeit im Studiengang Eco-Social Design und der Impuls sowie die Basis für ein langfristiges Projekt im Raum Südtirol.
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The project HOLY SHIT brings a topic that usually is very uncommon to appear in public: Our shit has superpowers – and sadly nobody knows about it. So what’s really behind the daily duty? Is it possible to make it a subject of public discussion? And is it possible to find solutions on a local base for one of the biggest problems of our time?
HOLY SHIT is the result of my master thesis in the study programme Eco-Social Design. It's also the stimuli and the base for a longterm project in South Tyrol.
The project HOLY SHIT brings a topic that usually is very uncommon to appear in public: Our shit has superpowers – and sadly nobody knows about it. So what’s really behind the daily duty? Is it possible to make it a subject of public discussion? And is it possible to find solutions on a local base for one of the biggest problems of our time?
HOLY SHIT is the result of my master thesis in the study programme Eco-Social Design. It's also the stimuli and the base for a longterm project in South Tyrol.
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Vor dem Hintergrund von Ressourcenknappheit, Klimawandel und den daraus resultierenden 17 globalen Nachhaltigkeitszielen der Agenda 2030 hinterfragt die Holy Shit die Rolle von Design im nachhaltigen Wandel:
Vor dem Hintergrund von Ressourcenknappheit, Klimawandel und den daraus resultierenden 17 globalen Nachhaltigkeitszielen der Agenda 2030 hinterfragt die Holy Shit die Rolle von Design im nachhaltigen Wandel:
(Wie) kann Ökosoziales Design dazu beitragen, öffentliches Bewusstsein für eines der letzten Tabuthemen der westlichen Gesellschaft zu schaffen: Der Wiederverwendung und die daraus resultierenden Vorteile von menschlichen Fäkalien als Wertstoff innerhalb eines Ressourcenkreislaufs.
Holy Shit – auf ein Wörtchen über das stille Örtchen fokussiert einen Kommunikationsansatz, der Mittel aus Visuellem Design, Projekt Management sowie der Konzeption und Moderation von partizipativen Events auf regionaler Ebene kombiniert. Das Projekt bezieht dabei lokale und überregionale Stakeholder mit ein. HOLY SHIT setzt einen Impuls, fängt ein Stimmungsbild ein und schafft einen Nährboden für zukünftige Entwicklungen.
Think globally, act locally
Anhand eines Prototypen für eine mobile Kompost-Toilette, einer Pop-Up-Ausstellung und eines Partizipativen Events kommuniziert HOLY SHIT das Thema und entwickelt einen Ansatz zur Kommunikation und Implementierung eines Lösungsansatzes zur Wiederverwertung von Fäkalien in Südtirol.
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Holy Shit examines the role of design in sustainable change against the background of resource scarcity, climate change and the resulting 2030 Agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
Holy Shit examines the role of design in sustainable change against the background of resource scarcity, climate change and the resulting 2030 Agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
(How) can Eco-Social Design contribute to communicating the benefits of treating human feaces, one of the last taboos in western society, as important reuseable material within a resource cycle?
“Holy Shit – auf ein Wörtchen über das stille Örtchen” focuses on a communicative approach that combines visual design, project management as well as the conceptualisation and moderation of participative events on a regional scale. Hereto the project takes local and supra-regional stakeholders into account. Thus, it also focuses on an effect that goes beyond the limits of the thesis project, sets a stimulus and creates a fertile ground for future actions.
Think globally, act locally
On the basis of a mobile composting toilet, a pop-up exhibiton and a participative event HOLY SHIT is both puts the topic in public, develops a communication strategy and creates a base for implementing an approach for reusing feces within the context of South Tyrol.
Being used as a resource instead of being treated as waste material, feaces could solve some of the biggest problems of our time like the loss of vertile ground, biodiversity, access to clean water or child mortality. Feaecs are extremely rich in plant nutrients and can be composted and recycled.
A mobile composting toilet functions as door opener to access the delicate topic. As Pop Up exhibition in a nursery it adresses the topic both on the outside and the inside. Whereas the door is featuring the post important facts around the topic in catchy phrases, the inside oncentrates on the experience and a more visual and interactive way of bringing the message accross.
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The project holy shit also functions as a stimuli to start a public discussion in the area of Bolzano and to collect feedback and input on the idea of founding a rental for mobile composting toilets for events in the region. By bringing together stakeholders and actors from politics, organizations, press, research and practice in a going public allowed to document and collect important insights and resulted in public attention through diverse local media.
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The project holy shit also functions as a stimuli to start a public discussion in the area of Bolzano and to collect feedback and input on the idea of founding a rental for mobile composting toilets for events in the region. By bringing together stakeholders and actors from politics, organizations, press, research and practice in a going public allowed to document and collect important insights and resulted in public attention through diverse local media.
The door communicates the 5 major topics in the discussion around feaces as ressource: taboo – water – nutrients – pathogens – value generation, offers a brief and easy acces and links to further information on the web.
Both the design and the wording translate the cultural, social, economic and ecological potential of treating shit as a valuable ressource: According to the motto "making gold out of shit" it brings hand illustrated, hand crafted, natural elements, graphic details and golden highlights together in both the pop-up exhibition and different media.
The illustration of a closed resource cycle visualizes how EcoSanitation works on a regional scale.
Instead of flushing a interactive "toilet tank" gives feedback on the amount of nutrients that are "donated" to the composting process and the amount of water that was saved by not using a water toilet.
At the same time elements from guerilla gardening, feedback cards, postcards and golden highlights throughout the nursery were used to draw attention on the exhibition and the topic, to collect feedback and to spread the word.
To reach a bigger audience the communicaiton strategy is based on a mobile and modular composting toilet. The construction can be easily set up and removed by plugging together the single elements.
At the same time it is the prototype for a rentable, mobile composting toilet that can be used for events in the region of South Tyrol, northern Italy. It was constructed in a partnership with a local carpenter and is made out of local resources.
At the same time it is the prototype for a rentable, mobile composting toilet that can be used for events in the region of South Tyrol, northern Italy. It was constructed in a partnership with a local carpenter and is made out of local resources.
The project was realized in collaboration with blufink and Lobis Elements.
