Tag: Mark Lunsford

There’s no hiding from the politics of gender identity in bathrooms at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. In the former men’s room, women walk past patrons standing at urinals to enter toilet stalls. UMass Boston had to get a code variance from the state, which requires separate bathrooms for men and women. Weiss says UMass Boston would repeat the design in future dorms. UMass Boston students can also choose singles, doubles or quads with their own bathrooms, so not all students use the shared space bathrooms. Mark Malmquist, who worked on the UMass Boston dorms project for Shawmut Design and Construction, says the gender-neutral shared bathrooms are becoming more popular in college dorms. "We provide individual spaces that we use for both men and women in our homes. They will have four stalls each, sinks on the opposite side, and be open to all. "We asked a number of men, will you miss using a urinal? If the future of bathrooms means no more urinals, just one request for people who use a toilet while standing: Please lift the seat.