Deconstructing Walls, 2018.
The purpose of our provocation is to protest the idea of border walls—both metaphorical and physical—that create violent barriers between immigrants and non-immigrant communities. We designed a model of a brick wall with xenophobic myths about immigrants that were used to propagate support for the building of the U.S. Mexico border wall engraved on the front side of the bricks. Inside the bricks laid a piece of clear acrylic which we engraved data and statistics that negated these myths. Drawing on the concept of deconstruction, the goal of our design is to have audiences interact with the wall by flipping each brick over to the transparent side with the statistics and facts written on them. After each brick is flipped, the wall becomes transparent creating a powerful metaphor that calls for more education around immigrant issues as we work toward the abolition of these myths and walls.
Purva Juvekar
M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Crystal Lee
B.A. Cognitive Science, 2018
Edward Rivero
LLC Ph.D.
Sally Tran
B.A. Cognitive Science, 2018