Join us for the WORLD PREMIERE public appearance of The TURDIS. We are partnering with the Wollongong Botanic Gardens to provide toileting services for the upcoming SUPER SATURDAY PLANT SALE. Time: 730am-2pm Location: Greenplan Nursery at Botanic Gardens – enter via 65 Northfields Avenue, North Wollongong. The TURDIS is an innovation of the Pootopia research …
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Pootopia at the Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award
We put together a small installation based around the Yours and Owls documentary video, for the recent Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. On the shelf are three ‘vintages’ of humanure we have created in recent years – from Port Kembla, Capertee Valley, and the Yours and Owls …
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Doctorin’ the Turdis!
New #pootopia phase! We commissioned a custom hot pink water tank to transform into a fully portable V.I.Poo Mark2 composting dunny! Thanks to @rotoplasrainwatertanks for fabricating this beauty for us, manufactured right here in the ‘gong (actually #unanderra of course). We will offer this to lucky crappers at the @wollongongbotanicgarden super Saturday plant sale in …
Waste Not Want Not (article in Region Illawarra)
Region Illawarra has published an interview with Pootopia artist Kim Williams, celebrating a grant awarded by Wollongong’s wonderful Culture Bank. You can read the article here. Thanks to Region Illawarra journalist Zoe Cartwright for the media coverage, and thank you Culture Bank for the funds!
V.I.Poo at Yours and Owls – Short Video Documentary
Here’s a short video documentary created by WayWard Films in collaboration with the Pootopia! team. A glimpse at our project for the 2023 Yours and Owls Festival in Wollongong. Enjoy! V.I.Poo at Yours and Owls Festival 2023 from Luca Zoid on Vimeo.
Poo is taboo!
Poo is taboo! Probably one of the reasons why poo is so funny (and why kids like to laugh about it) is because it’s taboo. We laugh about poo. In our Global Challenges project, we get to enjoy a little frisson of naughtiness, because we are using the word “poo” in an academic context. Poo-puns …
VIPoo a triumph at Yours and Owls Festival
Article by Don Poo-leone In an exclusive world premiere, the 2023 Yours and Owls Festival featured a VIPoo zone – a luxury composting toilet nestled among the music stages and art installations. The brainchild of University of Wollongong researchers, VIPoo was promoted first and foremost as a pleasurable experience. Speaking to Glimpses of Pootopia Magazine, …
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Pootopia: the science, art and economics of human manure
Here’s an article about Pootopia in THE STAND, an online publication which champions University of Wollongong’s research projects. Thanks to writer Lizzie Jack. The text from the article is copied below: — Pootopia: the science, art and economics of human manure Most of us don’t think twice about the fact that our favourite fruit and …
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Pootopia on the Radio
Following the 2023 Yours and Owls Festival, we were interviewed by Stefan at ABC Radio Illawarra! Have a listen.
New human manure publication acclaimed at Land Studio launch.
The following article by M. Crappington was originally published in Faecal Sludge Management Quarterly (FSMQ), and is reprinted here by permission of the author. New human manure publication acclaimed at Land Studio launch. Shit puns flew in the Capertee Valley at the gala launch of a new magazine championing human manure composting. Your reporter was …
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