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Teeter-Totter Wall Beazley Design Of The Year Winner
The
Design Museum of London has announced the winners of the
2020 Beazley Designs of the Year, with winning designs reflective of a year with no shortage of large problems facing the globe. The Impossible burger 2.0, and virus Sars-CoV-2 rendered in 3D are examples of the strange new world we live in. The overall winner, however, is more demonstrative of how futile border walls are at keeping us apart. And no border wall still in existence is as polemic as the one snakes across some parts of the Mexico-USA dividing line.
Colectivo Chopeke is a set of three bright pink teeter-totters snaked across the USA-Mexico border between El Paso and Cuidad Juarez. Border security and immigration policy has always ignited debate on both sides, only becoming more intense as twice impeached President Trump made erecting a fortified border wall, paid by Mexico, a major campaign promise. When the Teetertotter Wall was finally deployed in 2019
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Seesaw for kids along Sunland Park-Juarez border wall wins design prize
CNN Teeter-Totter Wall along the U.S. Mexico border at Sunland Park.
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico A collection of teeter-totters that briefly allowed children on both sides of the U.S.-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 Sunland Park and the other in Ciudad Juarez. The artwork was put up on July 28, 2019, and removed from the politically charged border barrier after less than an hour.