Citizen Involvement in Bathroom Design: The Splash Concept

In the previous video, we heard that citizens and people behind water-using equipment complement each other in their role in achieving more sustainable water end-use. While citizens can change their behaviour, there is also a major role to play for the manufacturers of equipment to produce and install efficient equipment. The following video adds a new possibility: changing practices.

In the next video, Dr. Lenneke Kuijer will introduce you to her work on the SPLASH concept and explain how practice-oriented design can be used to realise large-scale change. Lenneke will show you that there is a key role to be played by product designers and developers together with the end-users, to realise less resource-intensive ways of living. For the SPLASH concept, this means that average water consumption for bathing potentially reduces from 62 litres per shower to 12 litres per splash.

Further reading:

Kuijer, L. (in press). Practices-oriented design. Design for Behaviour Change. Kristina Niedderer, Stephen Clune and G. Ludden. London, Routledge.

Kuijer, L. (2017). Splashing: The Iterative Development of a Novel Type of Personal Washing. Living Labs, Springer: 63-74.

Kuijer, L. and C. Bakker (2015). “Of chalk and cheese: behaviour change and practice theory in sustainable design.” International Journal of Sustainable Engineering 8(3): 219-230.

Kuijer, L. (2014). “Implications of Social Practice Theory for Sustainable Design.”.

Kuijer, L., A. De Jong and D. Van Eijk (2013). “Practices as a Unit of Design: An Exploration of Theoretical Guidelines in a Study on Bathing.” Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 20(4): 22.