Toilet Paper
The Toilet Paper is not the paper roll which has been used commonly in the toilet, but which is considered as an informal media platform, contains various types of pop-up information or small knowledges which spread sparkling ideas in the toilet. Most of them have been printed on the recycling papers or cheap materials, with multitudinous and various types of format and sizes, which gained its name “toilet” paper.
The characteristic of toilet paper is ironic. The contents are mainly concerned on social issues and always trying to provide fresh ideas to the public in a humorous way.
这里的厕纸并不是厕所里常用的卷纸，而是一个非正式的媒介（小广告），在厕所里传播着灵思，它们大多印在回收纸或廉价的材料上，形式多样，大小不一，里面有各种类型的信息或小知识，因而得名 "厕纸"。
厕纸读物系列的特点是具有讽刺性。其内容主要关注社会问题，希望以幽默的方式为大众提供开放的想法。
The action of hacking the toilet was an idea that came up together with my friends in 2014, that originally, we want to spread out our portfolios in the University's Toilet, providing some readable ideas in a public but also intimate space. Since 4 of us are all working in the field of design, the basic idea of the paper is anonymous, and with simple pictorial works.
Later on, in 2015, I wrote some short urban rumours (or tales) which inspired by the book Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili), by Italo Calvino, and I printed them in small size recycling papers. The urban rumours were basic on my observations of strangers in the area of Taojin (Guangzhou), and they were been spread out in the public toilets, such as cafes, fast-food canteens. On each of the paper, there was no any other information except the story itself, and 4 series were been released by that time.
These basically formed the idea of the Toilet Paper (in Vienna), and rebooting the action of hacking the toilet.
厕所的小广告行动是我和朋友们一起想到的，2014年，原本我们想在大学的厕所里发我们的作品集，在一个公共而又私密的空间里提供一些可读的想法。 刚好我们4个人都是从事设计领域的工作，所以定了一些思路：保持匿名，和用简单的视觉作品表达。
后来，在2015年，我写了一些简短的都市传说（或故事），灵感来自于卡尔维诺（Italo Calvino）的《看不见的城市》（Le città invisibili）一书，我把它们印在小尺寸的回收纸上。这些都市传说是我在广州淘金一带对陌生人的观察所得，它们被散布在公共厕所，如咖啡馆、快餐店。每张报纸上，除了故事本身，没有任何其他信息，当时已经推出了4个系列。
这些基本形成了《厕所读物》（在维也纳）的理念，并重新启动了厕所行动。
issue#1 Heu! Neighbors! 首刊：Heu街坊
"Pausing bench" "smoking bar" "colored path"
The Social Design Studio moved from the mall Wien Mitte (Landstrasse) to Am Heumarkt recently, and we were concerned about how to make ourselves visible in this new neighborhood: engaging with the building residence, staffs of ice-skating park, hotel visitors and the passers-by...
Heu meaning Hi in some languages, and markt in German meaning a market place. Am Heumarkt in Vienna shared a courtyard with Vienna's famous ice-skating park and Intercontinental Hotel.
In order to connect the studio from inside to outside, and built up a network exchanging the ideas among other social designers, this collection of toilet paper shown a draft design intervention, and an ice breaking slogan.
The design interventions contain a series of new pieces of furniture on the ground floor and the studio entrance, which is an open area to the passers-by and the building residences/users. The aim of the new intervention is to trigger dialogue in (Am) Heumarkt by simply saying "Heu!" facilitated by the new public furniture ("Pausing bench" "smoking bar" "colored path").
社会设计工作室最近从Wien Mitte (Landstrasse)商场搬到了Am Heumarkt，我们一直在考虑如何让自己在这个新的社区里被人看到：与大楼的住户、滑冰公园的工作人员、酒店的游客和路人接触.。
Heu在某些语言中是“Hi“的意思，“markt“在德语中是市场的意思。维也纳的Am Heumarkt是一个由维也纳著名的溜冰公园和洲际酒店共用的一个内院。
为了从内部连接到工作室外部，并在其他同僚之间建立起一个可交流的网络，这个系列读物展示了一个场所营造（placemaking）的设计草案，以及一个破冰的口号。这个破冰的口号“Heu，Let's Break the Ice“恰好呼应了内院中几栋邻里中厕所窗外的风景——溜冰公园。
设计包含了一系列的公共家具，在一楼和工作室的入口处，这是一个对路人和建筑住宅/用户的开放区域。新干预措施的目的是在新的公共家具（"休息长椅""吸烟吧""彩色小路"）的推动下，通过简单地说 "Heu！"来引发（Am）Heumarkt的对话。
issue #2 MA 35
// Residential Permit Card
第二刊：居留证与维也纳移民局MA35
The following up issue 2 is about MA 35 where outlanders gain their official Residential Permit Card. And it's been released in the toilet yearly.
To gain a residential permit card for legally resident/study in EU, none EUs have to visit the local authorities to apply for this. However, the first cultural shock every applicants have to face on is the language.
English or German, when you taking the duty of immigration officer, facing foreigners from various religions everyday, will you still say 'Grüß Gott (greeting to god)' as a response to his/her 'Good morning'?
第2期是关于维也纳移民局MA35的厕所，所有外国人都在这里获得正式的居住许可卡（居留证），以获得在奥地利的合法居住/学习的许可（包括欧盟居民，虽然欧盟居民程序会简单许多）。
然而，每个申请人首先要面对的文化冲击是语言。
无论是英语还是德语，当你担任移民官时，每天面对不同宗教的外国人，你还会说'Grüß Gott(向神问好)'来回应他/她的'Good morning（早上好）'吗？
issue #3 Social Design OkCupid第三刊：来自社会设计工作室的丘比特
Nowadays looking for in a relationship or a partner through dating Apps is common and trendy. And OkCupid App is specifically calculating user's matches rate though few questionaries, i.e. Politically, which are more important to you right now. Moreover, users could also emphasise the importance of the question and set up their tendency answers from the others. While chatting freely, the system also provided their match's percentages and detailed questionnaire answers, as professional job interviews.
Rethinking of these social based questions, it's very interesting that how they select these questions, why it matters to a relationship and what kind of politics, law, religions questions should be included as an important part of a dating situation and so on. This toilet paper issue is trying to redefine our social design relationships in a similar way, by collecting the detailed answers towards different respects and see how much common ideology we have inside the studio, whether if we can triggering a break or a deeper harmony.
如今，通过交友Apps寻找一段关系或伴侣是很常见的。因而也出现了像OkCupid这类专门计算用户的匹配率的App，通过为数不多的问题，系统将用户双方的答案评估匹配，就像专业的求职面试一样。此外，用户还可以强调问题的重要性，并设置自己的倾向性答案，例如政治上，哪个对你现在更重要。软件的博客中也会有一些初次约会的问题指南，将政治性问题隐晦在了一些日常问答之中。
这期厕纸读物便是回应这些预设问题，思考这些问题为什么会对一段关系很重要，什么样的政治、法律、宗教问题应该作为约会情况的重要组成部分等等。希望类似的方式重新思考社会设计系同僚之间的内部关系，通过收集不同方面的详细答案，看看我们工作室内部有多少共同的意识形态，是否能引发断裂或更深的和谐。