worker, inc

Sustainable Borders

Date: Spring 2014

Location: Storefront window, 64 North Stone, Tucson, Arizona.

Organization: Worker, Inc.

Collaborators: Laura Vargas

A joint project between Worker, Inc. and Laura Vargas, student at the School of Architecture, University of Arizona. Laura's thesis project is about the creation of a site dedicated to the memory, presencing, and reflecting of the many people who have died crossing the United States - Mexico border in Arizona. In light of this exhibit occurring at the University of Arizona - Downtown building, which has a mission of serving as an urban laboratory for advanced research in sustainable urban design, planning and policy, Worker, Inc. and Ms. Vargas ask what is the relationship between sustainability and the political and physical border created between the United States and Mexico? Sustainability, if understood as a global system that must perpetuate its own existence, should know no political boundary. There should be no deaths. What are other physical manifestations of borders across the globe? What is the infrastructure created to encourage or discourage the pollination of trade and culture? Where does our land fit within the paradigm? Why?.

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