Teeter-Totter Wall at U.S.-Mexico border named Beazley 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. "It is great to see a project that is seriously playful and playfully serious is the winner," said Tim Marlow, Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum in London. "It remains an inventive and poignant reminder of how human beings can transcend the forces that seek to divide us." Awards were also presented to designers whose creations had a broad social impact in the categories architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product, and transport. Following COVID-related lockdown restrictions, the Design Museum is hosting a virtual exhibition of this year's most innovative designs until March 28. Read the full post on Bustler
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.
"It is great to see a project that is seriously playful and playfully serious is the winner," said Tim Marlow, Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum in London. "It remains an inventive and poignant reminder of how human beings can transcend the forces that seek to divide us."
Awards were also presented to designers whose creations had a broad social impact in the categories architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product, and transport.
Following COVID-related lockdown restrictions, the Design Museum is hosting a virtual exhibition of this year's most innovative designs until March 28.
