Bathroom of People: Resignification of the Classification of Bathrooms from the Experience of the Belford Roxo campus of IFRJ

Abstract

This work about the deployment of individual bathrooms without gender classification, as opposed to those of collective use common in educational institutions, from the experience of the Belford Roxo campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), is configured as a descriptive-exploratory narrative. In addition to the introductory session and the references, the text is organized in three parts. In the first one, the problem, the scenario in which it is circumscribed, the intersections with the campus deployment process and the proposed solution are contextually addressed. Next, the architecture of  controversies is approached, based on the technical-legal, hygienist-sanitary and moral arguments employed by different subjects linked directly or indirectly to the campus deployment and bathrooms model. Finally, the results and final considerations of the authors are presented, pointing to the success of the proposal in the period 2007-2018.