Rockers attached to the US-Mexico border wall win the 2020 Breazley Design of the Year Award.
A prestigious award from the Design Museum in London. The ‘Teeter-Totter Wall’ installation was designed by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello in 2019, with the help of the Chopeke Collective, a group of Juarez artists. The source of inspiration is as clear and strident as color rocker arms.
“Trump was talking about building another border wall while the children were being separated from their parents at the border. So we felt like we had to go up here and make some kind of statement. Show the world the faces of the children and the families who live on the border. What happens on one side affects the other. It is not just a wall on one side, it is literally something that divides this landscape that historically has always been one “, explained San Fratello, director of the Design Department of the San José University, in California.
The three hot pink rockers were installed through the bars of the wall, with one seat in Sunland Park (New Mexico, United States) and the other in Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico). This allowed the children of both countries to connect even though they were separated by the political barrier.
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