INCLOOSIVE: Feminist Toilet Architecture

INCLOOSIVE is an outcome of a research on the politics of inclusion in architecture — an inquiry initiated in the postgraduate studio, Staging Ecologies, offered in the Spring 2022 semester at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. The book proposes an inclusive design methodology that uses feminist concerns of intersectionality, representation, and empathy as a critical tool to imagine alternatives for public toilet spatial typology. The book marks a departure from the traditional focus of toilet design, in which innovation has been limited to providing solutions for toilet as a fixed typology having fixed utility driven spaces; to the contemporary concern for a coherent understanding of toilet as a contested space, in which innovation related to toilet design finds its genesis in the feminist viewpoints.