Inclusive and sustainable public toilets workshop, 20th January
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The image shows a turnstile entry to a public toilet. It ‘only accepts’ 10p and 20p coins and a hand-written note is taped to the front with instructions about how many coins are required. The floor looks wet and nothing looks very clean.
Back in 2019, we were part of a project, working with disabled people to look in detail at the challenges that people face trying to find an appropriate, inclusive toilet on journeys. We learned how important good public toilet provision is to help disabled people to travel.
As we respond to the climate emergency and different parts of our journeys are redesigned to be more sustainable, how do we ensure that they also remain inclusive? If toilets are designed to use less water and to be more energy efficient, for example, how do we ensure that these designs work for everyone?
The best way, we think, is to work with disabled people to start creating a vision for what public toilets could and should look like in the future and share this with designers, makers, manufactures, policy makers and more.
As part of our regular Thursday afternoon discussion about Future Journeys, we're going to learn about ideas for future public toilets from friends at PAMIS (who lead the campaign for Changing Places Toilets in Scotland) and the Public Toilet Research Unit at the Royal College of Art (developers of the Great British Toilet Map).
Then we'll work together to develop some ideas for more inclusive, sustainable toilets and use these insights and ideas to update our Inclusive Low Carbon Journeys story.
We have limited places for our workshop on Thursday 20th January but if you’re interested in learning more about the future of public toilets and helping us to create a vision for more inclusive, sustainable toilets use the form below to sign up.
Our event will run from 2:00 until 3:30 with a short break.
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