Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
This Blog has a critical view of brainstorming and focuses on negative aspects of this approach.
Though this site looks a bit old, it contains useful information on brainstorming and other tools on creative techniques.
A very useful site that contains an extensive description of brainstorming, and includes also information on other techniques. Furthermore, it also describes alterations of the classical brainstorming.
An excellent, three-page description of how to do a brainstorming – from the start to wrapping up.
PLATTNER (n.y): Design Methods – Brainstorming. URL [Accessed: 12.05.2010]Some more tips to prepare good flipcharts.
This homepage contains tips for using flipcharts effectively.
A software for brainstorming on your computer
A software for brainstorming on your computer.
This website is a host of information on the right to water and sanitation and contains information on legal norms and key documents related to the topic.
This site explains brainstorming in a very brief and concise manner, and also contains a section on how to evaluate the ideas generated.
This publication describes what brainstorming is, how it is done, and what rules there are. The publication contains a number of slides that can easily be used for presenting the method of brainstorming to an audience.
BALANCED SCORECARD (n.y): Module 2: Brainstorming. URL [Accessed: 12.05.2010]
A one-page description of the most important principles and rules when doing a brainstorming.
BRAINSTORMING CO UK (1999): Brainstorming Principles and Rules. URL [Accessed: 12.05.2010]The site gives you ideas and suggestions for how to get the best out of flipcharts.
Based on the recent discovery of the bio-waste and excreta treatment of the pre-Colombian Amazonian cultures, the author points out the potential of this technique (addition of charcoal and lacto-fermenting microorganism and subsequent vermin-composting of the bio-wastes and excreta) for the further development of dry urine diversion sanitation: the terra preta sanitation (TPS)
OTTERPOHL, R. (2009): Terra Preta Sanitation- providing new options in ecosan systems. Hamburg: Institute of Wastewater Management and Protection (aww), Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). [Accessed: 11.05.2010] PDF
This presentation gives an overview on different concept for ecosan in (multi-storey) buildings. The second half of the presentation introduces the concept of terra preta sanitation (TPS) as an anaerobic alternative to urine diversion dehydration toilets.
OTTERPOHL, R. (n.y): b: Waste Water Reuse in Buildings. Hamburg: Institute of Wastewater Management and Protection (aww), Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). [Accessed: 11.05.2010] PDF
In this paper, it is argued that generating new terra preta sites (‘terra preta nova’) could be the basis for sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first century to produce food for billions of people, and could lead to attaining three Millennium Development Goals: (i) to combat desertification, (ii) to sequester atmospheric CO2 in the long term, and (iii) to maintain biodiversity hotspots such as tropical rainforests.
GLASER, B. (2006): Prehistorically modified soils of central Amazonia- a model for sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first century. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Volume 362 , 187–196. URL [Accessed: 11.05.2010]
Article from a German newspaper on the potential of terra preta sanitation (TPS). German.
SCHEUBE, U. (2010): Der aus Scheisse Gold macht. In: Die Tageszeitung (TAZ): URL [Accessed: 11.05.2010]Language: Spanish