Mobile Dry Diversion Toilet (MDDT)
Waterless, circular sanitation system. Transforms waste into fertilizer. Designed with women in Lagos to address the intersection of infrastructure failure and gender-based violence. A toilet can prevent rape.
- Timeframe
- 2018–Present
- Location
- Lagos, Nairobi
- Developed through
FABULOUS URBAN (Game Changers pillar)
- Now scaled by
Design studio investigating decolonial and feminist practices through fieldwork in Lagos. Mixed African-German student teams documented everyday practices of seven women in Precious Seeds community—mapping social, spatial, and infrastructural provision. Findings contextualized through Lagos’s colonial planning legacy and critique of the Lagos State Development Plan 2052.
Students: Salaam Mujibah Abimbayo, Adeyemi Oluwajomiloju Adeoluwa, Foluke Adeniran, Damisi Akinnubi, Sorunke Arafat, Chisom Chukwuka, Oluwadamisi Cosmas, Hannah Dickhut, Oluwatoye Eyitayo, Fabusuyi Simisola Favour, John Favour, Agbonjaru Goodness, Oyeneye Kofoworola, Sophie Kraft, Lawrence Meju, Adeniran Mofoluwakwe, Abdullah Ogunsetan, Abraham Okello Omoding, Rafael Rychlik, Jan Schreiber, Anne Stadtmüller, Ololade Talabi, Robert Wenzel