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Timeline: 3 Weeks
Tags: Exhibition, Infographic
Team:Elyssa Yim︎︎︎JoyceLin︎︎︎Yuna Shin︎︎︎
Tools: Adobe Aero, Figma, Research
Tags: Exhibition, Infographic
Team:Elyssa Yim︎︎︎JoyceLin︎︎︎Yuna Shin︎︎︎
Tools: Adobe Aero, Figma, Research
Where is the Nearest Restroom? an interactive informational installation that addresses the public restroom crisis in Seattle, Washington.
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PROJECT OBJECTIVE
70 restrooms in a city of 787,995. Only 6 are open 24/7. Accessibility and visibility of this issue is critical. Access to a restroom is a human right.
How can we elucidate a crisis unseen to most, despite being in one of the most progressive cities in the world?
70 restrooms in a city of 787,995. Only 6 are open 24/7. Accessibility and visibility of this issue is critical. Access to a restroom is a human right.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a88a4a1761d919d8a6d3117894d161ef836a9cb1eaf649dfeb62a1030bc7dee/Group-217.jpg)
OUR SOLUTION
Inform + Advocate
Where’s the Nearest Restroom? (WINR?) is an interactive installation located in Cal Anderson, a popular park hosting only one working bathroom for a large displaced population alongside a working community. This installation seeks to inform the surrounding community of this dire issue and encourage advocation for better living conditions.
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![The zine dispenser]()
Inform + Advocate
Where’s the Nearest Restroom? (WINR?) is an interactive installation located in Cal Anderson, a popular park hosting only one working bathroom for a large displaced population alongside a working community. This installation seeks to inform the surrounding community of this dire issue and encourage advocation for better living conditions.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7b25da5602902e281fb928ea43d0768104329bef9d762b430f3dbf8e00e159c/pinned.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/609ace730ed25d4bfbf5a6b8431712fba03d48053599c8c46e37a5a7cf1461e4/zoomin.jpg)
![The zine dispenser](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825166dc570c9b6b0773cfef52ae9bafa599e663da5321af167e7efdad5e883d/toilet-paper.png)
VISUAL LANGUAGE
Taking the tile right off the wall.
WINR? Seeks to inform the public of a nationwide crisis at a local scope. A jarring district map elucidates access disparities in tandem with a takeaway zine that prompts meaningful mobilization. By utilizing a familiar tile motif render statistics and tie display, a strong allusion to restrooms is created.
Taking the tile right off the wall.
WINR? Seeks to inform the public of a nationwide crisis at a local scope. A jarring district map elucidates access disparities in tandem with a takeaway zine that prompts meaningful mobilization. By utilizing a familiar tile motif render statistics and tie display, a strong allusion to restrooms is created.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9669c4ac032187a8f057327bc7e54eccb4b1ba83ee5f47f2437d5fff8f777b1/map.jpg)
TAKEAWAYS ︎︎︎
Thinking outside of the daily deuce. Outsourcing statistics + function.
WINR? relied upon a state-provided map and acrued statistics from dozens of different sources to generate the cumulative map highlighting facilities/amenities for each of the Seattle districts. Looking beyond traditional sources of information was neccessary.
Man-on-the-street interviews, informatics advisors, and tons of restroom aesthetics and policies from across the world helped inform design decisions.
Conducting and compiling such sources was a new learning experience of it’s own, and required new ways of understanding of how a restroom functioned outside of the daily deuce one might take.
EXPLORATION ︎
PROCESS, SKETCHES, MOODBOARDS, BRAIN DUMPS + MORE︎︎︎
PROCESS, SKETCHES, MOODBOARDS, BRAIN DUMPS + MORE︎︎︎
![District Map with Data](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2b62a28052d637cf01683304382cf7c039595e3a72b07ee0a385dd44c6f5f83/mappy.png)
![Data Crunching for Project Statistics](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa3312cfba540363c0fc7a3fd854ab5e15b2060cbd5189a1d9d3fe354ada32c5/numbers.png)
![Early Location Scouting](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bc81a25bb99fd6d41eb41511fd78f7922924841edd7942a018be0ed45e892ca/Untitled-1.png)
![Ideation of a privacy curtain with anecdotes.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b2164647d96b363c18f861727c980ea6842fc176f263ec689eaa5acfae225d9/Group-106.jpg)
![Early Sketch of the Installation](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/473529c111661b4d87373ad690e44b58b9caaaa631d878387bd3bd0c595852f5/Untitled_Artwork-11-1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d38e9b80586d4839e99c3daec50acec9afd732bdeb4c256ea78ee30997e40dd/breakdown.png)