Creators say they hope the work encourages people to build bridges between communities.

A collection of bright pink seesaws that allowed people to interact over the US-Mexico border has been named by the Design Museum in London as overall winner of Beazley Designs of the Year 2020.

The Teeter Totter Wall, which bridged across El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico during a 40-minute session, was described as not only feeling “symbolically important” but also highlighting “the possibility of things” by the judging panel.

The creators of the seesaws, Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University, first came up with the idea a decade ago after the Secure Fence Act 2006, which started large-scale building on the border...

The Guardian: Pink seesaws across US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020