»Pink Seesaws Win Design of the Year 2020. This is How They Bridged Communities at US-Mexico Border
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Pink Seesaws Win Design of the Year 2020. This is How They Bridged Communities at US-Mexico Border
The pink teeter-totter that was installed in US-Mexico border in July 2019.
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The Teeter-Totter Wall saw installation of three pink seesaws through the slats of the wall across El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, bringing together children and women from the other side.
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Remember the collection of three pink seesaws those were built across the US-Mexico border on July 28, 2019, as a symbol of bridging the gap between communities? The teeter-totters have now won the prestigious Design of the Year 2020 award from London Design Museum.
By Sara Barnes on January 20, 2021
In 2019, a set of seesaws were installed on the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border as an unlikely act of unification. The project, called
Teetertotter Wall, featured slender beams clad in highlighter pink slid through the slats of the metal divider. People on both sides of the wall could enjoy the teeter-totters while also coming face-to-face with someone in a different country. The temporary creation gained attention when it was deployed, and it’s recently made headlines again by winning the London’s Design Museum award for the best design of 2020. In addition to taking home the top overall prize, it also won in the transportation category.
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The Teeter Totter Wall, a trio of bright pink seesaws installed between the US and Mexico border, has been named Design of the Year 2020.
Created by architecture studio Rael San Fratello in July 2019, the installation allowed children on both sides of the border to play with the seesaws, despite being divided by a metal bars that comprise the wall.
The prestigious Design of the Year award, also known as Beazley Designs of the Year, is organised by London’s Design Museum.
Though the Teeter Totter Wall project was brief – the installation was only up for 40 minutes – it was seen by judges as “symbolically important”. Razia Iqbal, a chairperson for the Design Museum judges, noted that the work “talked about the possibility of things; that all kinds of things are possible when people come together with great ideas and determination .
A set of three pink seesaws installed between the United States-Mexico border wall was named the Beazley Designs of the Year 2020 by the London Design Museum on Tuesday.
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