Waste not : Innovative Solutions for Human Excreta Management

Brief
This competition aims to revolutionize human excreta management by engaging innovators across disciplines to transform waste into a valuable resource. We champion an interdisciplinary approach, merging expertise from different design fields, architecture, engineering, social sciences to devise holistic solutions that extend beyond conventional sanitation practices. This competition aims to cultivate collaborative efforts that encompass the entire excreta management cycle, from collection to repurposing, ensuring that the solutions address practical challenges while resonating on cultural and societal levels.

Objective: We are in search of inventive methods to repurpose excreta, shifting the focus from mere disposal to energy production, agricultural use, and water conservation. This challenge invites participants to view excreta as a valuable resource, encouraging innovations that benefit individuals and communities alike.

Proposals should explore personal hygiene innovations, efficient sanitation systems that recover resources, community-driven waste management solutions, and scalable urban waste management systems. Participants are free to choose different scenarios, locations and cases of intervention around excreta, these interventions should employ modern and cutting-edge technology to foster sustainable, efficient, and inclusive outcomes at various scales—Individual, Seat, Building, Neighborhood, and City levels