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Gail Ramster

@gaillyk.bsky.social

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Academic Researcher in Inclusive Design @ Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London. Runs @toiletmap.bsky.social 🚽. Wrote a book https://tinyurl.com/y3ra4y4f. Also #londoncycling 🚴‍♀️ and #neighbours 📺

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

My book is published today 📚. It’s called Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People, written with @jo-anneb.bsky.social. It’s part inclusive design guide, part manifesto for better public toilets 🚽. Buy copies for all your friends! 🎁. Here’s what you’ll find inside 🧵

Copy of the book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets' in front of white bathroom tiles. In the foreground is a rubber duck.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 17d

We’re running free training in how to use our new improved street accessibility tool at the Guildhall in London this Friday and next Tuesday. It’ll include a case study on how it was used at Bank Junction. Open to anyone who works in street design. More details in the thread.👇

Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 22d

I made a new thing 🧵 Working with @transportforall.org.uk we have built an even better spreadsheet for analysing streets (actual or being designed) and showing their likely accessibility for different disabled people. It’s free to download and use www.rossatkin.com/wp/?portfoli...

Tool for Equitable StreetScapes (TESS) – Ross Atkin Associates

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · 25d

Quite the debate breaking out at Coventry Station ladies toilets.

Sign on the back of a toilet door. In marker pen it reads ‘while you’re not doing it someone else is getting ahead’. In different handwriting it says ‘comparison is the thief of joy’. A mental health sticker is in the corner.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Does Paul live there? He’s in-and-out so much it’s hard to track. So it’s more about David than Aaron.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Aug 1

Who needs morning cardio over 5 minutes of live TV.

Heart rate graph with a sharp 8am peak to 156bpm

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jul 31

Bagsy sending @jo-anneb.bsky.social

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’m an academic on the telly! Life ambition unlocked.

London Loo Alliance @londonlooalliance.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fantastic to see two London Loo Alliance members talking about toilets on BBC Breakfast this morning 🛋️

Thank you to Ray from British Toilet Association for your insight and to @gaillyk.bsky.social for your excellent interview 🚽🙌

Picture of man giving interview on BBC Breakfast at 7:52 with text reading Raymond Martin, British Toilet Association.

Picture of women in blue top giving live interview on BBC Breakfast sofa. Text reads Gail Ramsted - Co-founder, Toilet Maps. Time 07:53

Three people sitting on BBC Breakfast sofa. From left to right, a women wearing a navy top, a man wearing a suit and a woman wearing a bright pink shirt. There is an image of a toilet sign in the background.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you! Love the alt-text. I could feel myself waving my hands, unable to stop.

London Loo Alliance @londonlooalliance.bsky.social · Jul 23

Great to be at the launch of Wee the People, brilliant new book by @gaillyk.bsky.social & @jo-anneb.bsky.social at the @royal collegeofart.bsky.social. It’s a really special book. We’re very lucky to have @gaillyk.bsky.social in the Alliance.

Five people stand around a pool table. On the right a woman wearing blue has her hands up as she gives a speech.

A stamp depicting a toilet roll is on the back of a persons hand

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · Jul 18

In today's blog post, @jo-anneb.bsky.social ‪and @gaillyk.bsky.social talk us through "Designing Inclusive Public Toilets," and why if designers can get these facilities right, they can design anything accessibly.

➡️ Read now: bit.ly/3TIXnEd

#AcWri #AcademicSky #accessibility

Wee, the people, need better public toilets! | Jo-Anne Bichard and Gail Ramster on Designing Inclusive Public Toilets

How do you design public toilets/public restrooms to be accessible for all? Jo-Anne Bichard and Gail Ramster talk us through truly inclusive design.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yeah no can't think of another way you'd move a train engine. @ Walthamstow International

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Jul 16

IN THE PARK

In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.

I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · Jul 5

Some Saturday reading 📖
My new copy of @gaillyk.bsky.social and @jo-anneb.bsky.social 's new book arrived just in time to pick up on my walk into town.

A café table with a cup of coffee, a glass of water, an almond croissant, and the book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People' by Jo-Anne Bichard & Gail Ramster.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yay! Thank you. I hope it brings joy to a niche subject.

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · Jun 27

This book looks very interesting and reminds me of the best public toilet of the year awards in Seoul and that one society in Korea dedicated to a healthy public toilet culture.
Of course, I'm always interested in the #LinguisticLandscape of public toilets and all those signs . . . .

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you! I’m biased but it has its moments.

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wonderful! Thank you

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you! I hope it helps makes toilets a little better.

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you! ☺️

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you! Yes, lots of baby-changing these days; far fewer options for adults weeing when with same small kid.

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Woohoo 🙌 Thank you 🙏 ❤️

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you!

Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you! Yes, I think in September. The publishers experienced a little delay.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you!
I love that you took a photo. I hope they served their purpose, but hospitals are an infinite design brief.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Urgh didn't include a link 😮‍💨 😀
www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-In...

Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People

Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People : Jo-Anne Bichard, Gail Ramster: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you Bloomsbury @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design for supporting us, and of course Jo-Anne Bichard for suggesting we do this. Seemed like madness to me but we did it! 🏆 I'm delighted 😘

Back cover of a book. Top line read 'This is a brilliantly accessible, engaging, essential and timely book on a subject...'

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · Jun 26

So what’s next for inclusive public toilet design? Our conclusion has our vision for ‘Lootopia’. I know things look bleak, but hey, we all need ‘to go’, and inclusively designed toilets aren’t expensive; the cost is putting in a little more thought. We’re here to help. but you got this 💪

Architectural drawing for a public toilet of semi-donut shape, showing central seating, rooftop garden and delivery driver hub for cyclists.

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