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’
Pink Seesaw Installation on the US-Mexico Border Wall Wins Design of the Year Award
January 19, 2021 11:11
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The Teeter-Totter Wall at the US-Mexico border won the 2020 Design of the Year award. The Design Museum; Image: Luis Torres/AFP/Getty Images
Pink seesaws installed at the US-Mexico border won a 2020 Design of the Year Award, in the annual recognition sponsored by Beazley and the Design Museum (UK). The Teeter-Totter Wall aimed to bring people together with a playful and meaningful bridge between sides on the border of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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.
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.