Peebetter

The guests at the world’s biggest design award, Index: award 2013 at Kulturværftet had the chance to try UiWE’s new urban urinal: StreetPee. It was a truly inspiring award show with a great line up of innovative projects, raising ones hope in humanity. Read about the winning projects at www.designtoimprovelife.dk and see pictures of StreetPee in action at both flashy Index and everyday Sydhavnen.

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UiWE and Sara Nanna won a bid to design a new toilet for the City of Copenhagen, specially fit for the urban context. As users include drug users and vagrants, there are special requirements regarding robustness and security. The toilet stands out from other toilets by being more open to the context – though still offering privacy for the users. Rather than having a sealed off inner space, the urban floor is drawn into the construction. A urinal is integrated on the back.

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Pollee is an open air, no-touch pissoir for the ladies, specifically designed for festivals, concerts and outdoor parties. One Pollee can accommodate four girls at once, and is used in a semi-squat stance that requires no touching – although handles on the sidewalls are there to support balance. Pollee was originally developed for Roskilde Festival, but has now been redesigned for the urban environment.

Simple P – the street urinal for men
Simple P is a very innovative solution, designed to relieve the gentlemen at urban festivals. It offers simple coverage, and leads the urine directly into one of the many sewer grates that are already distributed throughout the city. It is simplicity at its best! – and with its sister product Pollee, the PeeBetter product family reach a level of aesthetics that are never-seen-before for products of this context.

PeeBetter presents innovative urinal concepts for huge street parties
For use at this years Copenhagen Distortion Festival, two new urinal concepts has been developed by PeeBetter to accommodate pee-needs at the festival, and others alike. The results offer incomparable hygiene and great alternatives to the claustrophobic plastic containers or hidden street corners that are usually the options.

Wednesday the 30th of May at 5 PM UiWE and Sara Nanna opens at Distortion. We present two prototypes to address pee needs in public space: Pollee for the ladies and Simple P for the guys. Come for a drink and a pee!

PeeBetter is a platform designing human solutions in public space launched by UiWE. We are currently working on two designs as well as strategic approaches to handle pee culture.