An art project that turned the border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border into the temporary base for pink seesaws – inviting children on each side to come play
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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
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Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year winners
Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year winners
Seesaw installation Teeter-Totter Wall, by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with Colectivo Chopeke won the design accolade, s elected by a jury chaired by journalist Razia Iqbal and including fashion designer Samuel Ross and material innovator Seetal Solanki. The winners of the annual awards demonstrate how design can suitably respond to issues of social justice, climate change and the pandemic
The Teeter-Totter Wall, installed for a brief period at the border between USA and Mexico, was announced as the overall winner of the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year. Member of the jury Dr Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities said: ’a very innovative project, a thought-provoking project, a political project, which really seems to hit the moment in a fantastically beautiful way’
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.