Mayuri Sisodia

Mayuri Sisodia

This Manifesto initiates a new discussion on nature of infrastructure, where they are not universal

For WID 2020, we are submitting an ongoing project from the Studio titled ‘The Toilet Manifesto, Case on Mundane Infrastructures’. The Project started as a Travelling Exhibition demonstrating 10 Public Toilet Typologies, Currently most of the Typologies are under construction at 35 Sites within Rajasthan.

The Manifesto Studies the state of our most mundane Infrastructure i.e. A Public Toilet & develops 10 diverse imagination of this building type as a Sensitive Public Building grounded in diverse contexts of our cities & villages.

In the Past, we have alwaysimagined Public Toilets as an Engineering or Plumbing system that has no relationship with the human body, community and the environment around it. This Manifesto initiates a new discussion on nature of infrastructure, where they are not universal problem solving solutions but are holistic public spaces integrated with everyday lives of people.

We called this exhibition ‘The Toilet Manifesto’, very ironic term because there was a manifesto for something as mundane as Toilets. The primary focus of the Manifesto was to design Public Toilets as Public buildings that are joyful and that treat all the citizens with love, respect & dignity.

Mayuri Sisodia

DESIGN FIELD
Architecture, Urban Design and Strategy

LOCATION
Mumbai, India

ABOUT
“Mayuri Sisodia is an Architect & Urban Designer based in Mumbai. She is Co- founder of MAD(E) IN MUMBAI, a design practice involved with the discipline of Architecture and Urbanism. The mission of her studio lies in transforming every day mundane experience of our cities into holistic and fulfilling experience through the medium of Design. Her Studio has received Social Innovator’s Award for the year 2016 from Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, Ministry of External Affairs and NITI Aayog. Recently, the Studio won a National Competition to design Historical ‘Grant Road’ of Mumbai organised by MCGM & Mumbai Street Lab. The studio has won many other national & international competitions that include Flood resilient housing competition organised by ISET, Revitalisation of Banganga Crematorium by Rotrary Club & Rethinking Kalanagar Traffic Junction by BMW Guggenheim Lab. Currently her studio is involved with construction of 35 sanitation infrastructure projects in Ajmer, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur & Kota under Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan.”