Triennale Milano
Installation view CIRCULAR FLOWS, 2019. Credits MAK/Georg Mayer/EOOS
Commissioner: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director and Artistic Director, MAK
Curator: Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and Design Collection, MAK
Design: EOOS
Concept, Design, and Installation: EOOS Animation and Graphic Design: Process Studio, Vienna Urine Trap Toilet: LAUFEN Light Display: Zumtobel
Funding: Federal Chancellery of Austria, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Support: Tove Larsen (Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Austrian Cultural Forum Milan LAUFEN Zumtobel
Exhibition

Austria CIRCULAR FLOWS – The Toilet Revolution!

March 1 – September 1 2019
It is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time and yet largely unknown: the pollution of our waters by nitrogen. The renowned Viennese design studio EOOS has developed the revolutionary prototype of a toilet for urine separation (urine trap), which offers a systemic design solution to fight the global nitrogen problem. The official Austrian contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano presents the urine trap in a flush toilet developed together with the Swiss ceramics manufacturer LAUFEN, and embedded in a multimedia installation (by Process Studio, Vienna, with a light display by Zumtobel) that illustrates the ecological interaction of coastal waters, sewage systems and agriculture. The EOOS exhibition shows the contribution the urine separation toilet can make to the repair of the nitrogen cycle and thus to the preservation of the ecological boundaries of our planet.
The project is based on research by Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and EOOS is responsible for the design of the urine trap. As an internationally active design studio working for brands such as Adidas, Armani, bulthaup, Walter Knoll, LAUFEN, Herman Miller, Zumtobel, i.a., EOOS has been dedicated to projects in social and sustainable design since several years. The Austrian contribution was commissioned by MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and financed by the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
Credits
Organising institution: MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Commissioner: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director and Artistic Director, MAK
Curator: Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and Design Collection, MAK
Design: EOOS
Concept, Design, and Installation: EOOS Animation and Graphic Design: Process Studio, Vienna Urine Trap Toilet: LAUFEN Light Display: Zumtobel
Funding: Federal Chancellery of Austria, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Support: Tove Larsen (Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Austrian Cultural Forum Milan LAUFEN Zumtobel

Highlights

EOOS/Eawag, Blue Diversion Toilet, Field Test, Nairobi, 2014. Credits EOOS/Eawag
VisualizationCircular Flow, 2019. Credits Herwig Scherabon/Process Studio Vienna

Archives and collection

Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda
Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi
Mostra sugli Studi delle proporzioni, allestimento dell'architetto Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone, esposto nella mostra Studi sulle proporzioni
Mostra sugli Studi delle proporzioni, allestimento dell'architetto Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone, esposto nella mostra Studi sulle proporzioni