TOTU you
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your pleasure
TOTU is a digital application designed for exploring one`s physicality. The four-step method allows for the creation of a unique collage with a map of one`s own body.
V Sekson
Conference
TOTU x SEKSON
Once again, along with the Sekson project and the Avalon Foundation, we are a team co-creating the space and activities during the event! This year's conference theme is closeness and relationships. We designed the conference space to encourage participants to interact and co-create. One of its elements is an installation inspired by a wish tree, where each participant could add their affirmation. This allows for integrating conference participants, focusing attention on the positive aspects of life, as well as closeness with others and reflecting on one's own actions and goals. In addition, the space features a mapping illustrating our comfort zones and social distances. This is one of the steps in understanding why some closer interactions can be awkward and uncomfortable for us in certain situations. Additionally, participants will find a plant-filled Instaspot inspired by the conference's theme. This year, we will also be conducting workshops with the TOTU app, but this time in an online format. Through collage techniques, participants had the opportunity to express their thoughts, feelings, and desires in a creative and unrestricted way. It will be an opening experience that allows for a deeper understanding and acceptance of oneself in the context of closeness. We invite you to participate in the event!
Past events
We create TOTU
Marta Jagoda-Błaszczak
Graduated from a Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ASP) in Katowice as well as completed Law studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the center of her work, Marta puts people hence her main focus areas are inclusive design and user experience (UX). A subject matter expert when it comes to intercultural communication which is clearly visible in all her work, along with dialogue and mediation techniques. A keen sculpture and ceramics enthusiast. Currently, Marta continues her artistic education at the ASP in Katowice, where she started MA Painting studies.
Oliwia Michniewska
Graduated from a Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ASP) in Katowice. In recent years, Oliwia has been professionally involved in arranging exhibitions, focusing on graphical design and illustrations. She believes in the great potential of graphical design that, when designed properly, can address social needs and solve community issues. This very belief is expressed in Oliwia’s diplomas and her current job at ASP where she educates students on the Design principles. Oliwia’s other interests revolve around photography and cartoons, especially Japanese Manga.
Weronika Ogiegło
Graduated from a Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. A great deal of Weronika’s work focuses on the actual process and pivots around ethical aspects of programming. A broad point of view, excellent soft skills and analytical flair allow her to build complete digital products that generate rich data sets that enable further product development according to the developed strategy. Weronika enjoys being out and about and close to nature.
Damian Kozar
Graduated from a Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and recently completed Cyber Security Management studies at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. A skilled solutions’ architect and a great enthusiast of new technologies, innovation and automation. Damian makes impossible, possible, and does not take ‘no’ as an answer. He is a highly analytical specialist who focuses on mapping solutions to the problems. Damian’s way to relax is his Downhill bike.
At TOTU,
it's important to us
Find answers 
the in the safe space
We still find it difficult to talk about our sexuality, and the sexuality of people with disabilities still functions as a social taboo.
- The purpose of TOTU is to enable the search for a variety of erogenous zones, including extragenital ones.
- The tool allows to see body through the prism of closeness, touch and pleasure. TOTU contains a library of symbols which users can utilize to look for answers to the questions: "what do I like", "what is difficult for me", "where do I like to be touched and where I don’t".
- Using the symbol library 🫦 TOTU users create digital collages, TOTU enables visual body mapping.
How we show support?
Socially, the topic of sexuality is treated very narrowly: sex is commonly advertised as a genital act, which has a harmful disheartening impact to many social groups. The sexuality of people with disabilities still functions as a social taboo. Everyone is different and has different erogenous zones. That is why we value diversity and inclusiveness.
- We organize exhibitions
- We run workshops
- We arrange space for social dialogue
2 exhibitions
Organized in Contemporary Art Galleries
1000+
collages
made by people with diverse disabilities
4 dedicated
Exhibition spaces
How it all started and what's next?
TOTU started as a graduation project at the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice. From the early days, the project received support and social patronage from the Avalon Foundation, the biggest support organization for people with disabilities in Poland. The collaboration between TOTU and Avalon Foundation pivoted around Projekt Sekson,dedicated to sexuality and parenting of people with physical disabilities. The motivation for creating the TOTU tool was the topic of stereotypes about the sexuality of people with physical disabilities.
An educational project initiated by the Avalon Foundation supporting people with disabilities and chronically ill. As part of the project, the project counteracts discrimination and exclusion of people with disabilities in the area of sexuality and parenthood. The aim of the Sekson Project is to change stereotypes and try to influence the way people with disabilities are perceived, as well as to increase social awareness of the needs and barriers that people with disabilities face on a daily basis.
As part of our project, we conducted several workshops. Collages created with TOTU were shown at exhibitions, we also took part in conferences where our activities received a very positive feedback. We received a lot of strong feedback saying that TOTU is needed more globally. Due to such a good feedback we decided that TOTU must become an application available to all willing people who want to discover and observe their body.
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