Photo from: @rrael on Instagram
Seesaws installed at the United States-Mexico border wall let children from the two countries to play with each other.
Two professors in California were responsible for this installation. Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an assistant professor at San José State University in California, had this idea called a “Teeter-Totter Wall” in 2009.
On Monday, their idea became a reality when three bright pink seesaws or teeter-totters were added to the giant steel border wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico.
Rael mentioned via a blog post that “Teeter-Totter Wall” coming to life as “one of the most incredible experiences of my and Virginia San Fratello’s career.”
He also shared a video on Instagram of children playing with the seesaws at the border.
He said, “The wall became a literal fulcrum for U.S.-Mexico relations and children and adults were connected in meaningful ways on both sides with the recognition that the actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side.”
President Donald Trump, who has spent years pushing for the construction of a border wall, was cleared Friday by the Supreme Court to tap into the Defense Department’s $2.5 billion counter-drug money to build more than 100 miles of the wall.
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