Design Museum 4/10
Teeter-Totter Wall consists of three bright pink teeter-totters, which were slotted into gaps in the steel boundary wall by designers from both sides of the border
Design Museum 5/10
ModSkool, by Social Design Collaborative, won the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year Architecture category. The school is designed to be easily erected and dismantled in response to forced evictions of farming communities on the floodplains of the Yamuna river in India
Design Museum 6/10
The Telfar bag, by Telfar, won the Fashion category. It s described as a vegan leather, gender neutral hand bag
Design Museum 7/10
Brick arches designed by Hong Kong protestors won the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year People s Choice category. The small brick structures were used by Hong Kong protestors from the pro-democracy movement as roadblocks to slow down police vehicles
Teeter-totters at U.S.-Mexico border win UK design prize
By DANICA KIRKAJanuary 19, 2021 GMT
LONDON (AP) A collection of teeter-totters that briefly allowed children on both sides of the US-Mexico border wall to play together has won a prize from London’s Design Museum.
The three hot-pink seesaws were installed through the slats of the wall, with one seat in the El Paso, Texas suburb of Sunland Park, New Mexico, and the other in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The artwork was put up on July 28, 2019, and removed from the politically charged border barrier after less than an hour.
The Design Museum named the project Tuesday as the overall winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year competition for 2020, which considered 74 projects by designers from around the world. Teeter-Totter Wall was designed by California architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with help from Colectivo Chopeke, an artists’ collective in Juarez.
"For the first time, children from both El Paso, Texas, and the Anapra community in Mexico were invited to connect with their [neighbors], in an attempt to create unity at the politically divisive border."
LONDON - A collection of teeter-totters that briefly allowed children on both sides of the US-Mexico border wall to play together has won a prize from Londo