Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

In February 2016, D. Trump spoke to the world: “We are going to have borders nice and strong. We are going to build a wall. You know that. Going to build the wall … Mexico is going to pay for the wall. Right? It’s going to happen. Going to happen. They know it. I know it. We all know it.” In 2018, two years later, several wall proposals for the US-Mexico border have been presented. The wall of the northwest USA and Mexico border has existed since 1994. It was Bill Clinton under the “Operation Guardian”, that for the first time built the wall on the border with California. This project it is proposed to respond to this statement. Mexico can submit proposals for a border wall. Apparently there must be a limit between two large nations to regulate the entry and exit of citizens of both parties. The problem? The context. According to the WDO, industrial design is an optimistic discipline which transforms problems into opportunities to allow a better quality of life “[…] At its heart, Industrial Design provides a more optimistic way of looking at the future by reframing problems as opportunities […] “ Through reigning industrial design methodologies, we analyse the different elements that constitute the problem, which allowed us to design a border wall much more in line with the context, from a positive and optimistic perspective vision which will allows to a better quality of life to those really affected by this imposition.