#BoycottXenophobia

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As if this issue wasn't controversial enough, I wonder what was happening on the (anonymous) Third Mind Foundation to consider having an International Design Competition where the point is to Re-conceptualize the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall.

In their website they state not having "a [political] position on this issue" and question if "a barrier can have architectural merit." But what I found harder to understand then, how is it that "the competition's challenge [...] is to bring creativity and innovation to bear on the idea of a border barrier, and in so doing, expand the boundaries and re-conceptualize the current debate beyond sound bytes, statistics and unrealistic monetary figures".

Archdaily posted the competition on their website, and now of course, there are angry architects sending an audible #BoycottArchdaily on Twitter.

There is a wall already, the fact it needs to be re-conceptualized is wrong in the sense that the solution is not attacking the problem, it's giving a formal solution to greater issues that Trump, the Trump sympathisers at the Third Mind Foundation and even Archdaily bypassed in the most cynical way.

I'm worried I must say, about the ways we are behaving through social media. There's nothing wrong about posting whether you like one football team better than other, but to cut lumber and put it underneath an already xenophobic argument, seems to me, violent to say the least.