Ronald Rael : An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall

Ronald Rael·TED Salon
An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall
Summary
The speaker was working on several projects along the US-Mexico border as an architect, designing, and building it.
And then, he began to wonder whether the wall is architects or not.

The wall was that architecture could communicate ideas that are much more politically and culturally complex.

However, it was satirical and serious at the same time and there were disparities between wealth and poverty and what’s local and what’s foreign.

For documenting his thoughts about the wall, he tried to create souvenirs and games, though, it was still crazy.

The purpose of the wall is to keep people apart and away, though, people try communicating. However, the wall between neighbors, families, and lands severs those relationships.

What is the border?

I also thought that for solving problems, walls should be built, though, it’s created only subversive landscapes.

The border should be a beautiful line to be located in each country for people coming and going and we have to rethink it again.


Words in this story
merge /verb/ blend, be blended; be assimilated, combine or unite into a single body
mend /verb/ repair, improve, be improved
satirical /sa·tir·i·cal/səˈtirək(ə)l /mocking, ironic, ironical
sever /verb/ cut off
severe /adj/ intense