The work was undertaken at San Jose State University. “We realized really quickly that wood waste is a material that could be transformed for 3D printing,” Virginia San Fratello, San Jose State University chair of the design department, tells
Fast Company. “The new process can print wood with a grain that mimics any type of tree, from ash to mahogany.” The technology could even be used to replicate rosewood, a Madagascar tree that is endangered because of demand for its wood.
Complex geometries are possible and there is plentiful sawdust and lignin available. “They pay you to pick it up,” says Ric Fulop, CEO of Desktop Metal, a startup working to commercialize the process. “It’s going into landfill right now. Hundreds of millions of metric tons of waste is generated every year just in the U.S. alone.”
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This week a pink seesaw installation on the US-Mexico border was named Design of the Year Dezeen 23/01/2021 © Provided by Dezeen Pink seesaw installation on the US-Mexico border
Named the Teeter-Totter Wall, the pink seesaws were designed by architecture studio Rael San Fratello to connect children on both sides of the border wall. We are living in a time when people are longing for meaningful connections and we would like to think the teeter-totter can be an example for how we come together, to create balance and equality, Virginia San Fratello told Dezeen.
The award was announced in the same week that Donald Trump, who highly politicised the border wall, left office and Joe Biden was sworn in as US president.
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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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