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.
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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 state of affairs, said Rael in a video. That was part of it and it was scary, but it was important.
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.
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