US-Mexico border wall seesaws win design award
The installation allowed children to play together from both sides of the US-Mexico border.
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The installation allowed children to play together from both sides of the US-Mexico border.
An installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which saw seesaws bridge the US and Mexico border wall, has been crowned Design of the Year 2020.
feed to stay on top of the news. Other nominees included a 3D rendering of the virus causing COVID-19, Lee Ha Jun’s set design from "Parasite" and the union flag stab-proof vest worn by Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019. The Impossible Burger 2.0 and a gender neutral Telfar bag were two of the category winners, along with the Chilean feminist group Colectivo LASTESIS and the brick arches made by protesters in Hong Kong to slow down police vehicles. “If you believe in this relationship between design and activism and you want to make change, then you take that step to make a statement about the...
The binational Teeter-Totter Wall intervention, connecting children on both sides of a U.S.-Mexico border fortification through three bright pink see-saws for a brief, viral moment in 2019, has been named the Beazley Design of the Year 2020.
Pink seesaws built across U.S. border wall win prestigious design award Muri Assunção A installation of three pink seesaws built across a section of the U.S. border wall has been named by the London Design Museum as the overall winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year 2020. Installed in July 2019 between the cities of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the Teeter-Totter Wall was a temporary interactive piece of artwork that enabled “children on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to play together,” according to the museum. It consisted of “three bright pi...