Borderwall Urbanism

Instructors: Ronald Rael (Architecture and Art Practice) and Stephanie Syjuco (Art Practice)

There are fourteen major sister cities along the United States – Mexico border whose urban, cultural, and ecological networks have been bifurcated by a borderwall. With 650 miles of wall already constructed, and the population in these urban areas expected to grow to over 20 million inhabitants over the next decade, the long-term effects of the wall’s construction must be carefully considered now in order to anticipate the consequences of its incision into a context of rapid growth and massive migratory flows, especially as the current political climate calls for further wall construction.