Transforming the Border into a Teeter Totter (See – Saw)
On the US-Mexico steel border wall, Architecture studio Rael San Fratello wanted to create a place where citizens across the border could connect, so they designed three bright pink temporary ‘teeter-totters’ (see-saws) to slot into gaps.
What does it represent?
- How neighbours are connected in multiple ways. Any impact on one country will have some effect on neighbouring countries too ( symbolic of a see-saw)
- That our relationships with our neighbours can extend past political relationships but also humanistic relationships.
- The see-saw demonstrated how those immediate relationships between people can create an environment where happiness and play are also important aspects of life on the border.
Design Museum in London awarded Teeter Totter wall, the Beazley Design of the Year, one of the design world’s most prestigious prizes. Beazleys are given to projects and products that contain “powerful messages of change”.
Business Blasters programme
Part of the Entrepreneurship Mindset curriculum in Delhi government schools.
School students who pitched business ideas and floated their own business venture with a meagre government grant of Rs 1000 per student as well as a platform to implement these ideas.
These kinds of programs can help in inculcating the values of innovation and research among young students thus helping them provide quality education, encourage entrepreneurship, and in the overall development of the country.
Previously, Delhi government had introduced Happiness Curriculum (2018) and Deshabhakthi Syllabi (2020-2021)
