Design creates expectations.

Among the achievements brought to us by modernity, civilisation has learned to live in a state of complete alienation from its own waste. This year I have tried to find a design solution that changes and refreshes that relationship. In the toilet, industrial design has a most intimate connection with human behaviour. Until the Victorian age and subsequent widespread plumbing infrastructures, human waste was a commodity. Today, drinking water is scarce.

Imagine if today’s toilet converted our excrement back into a commodity, without water: how would this change our lives and world views?