Embracing the international theme at 2016’s Wanted Design show, together with the students and faculty of SVA Products of Design, we present ACCESS LTD, a set of roving checkpoints that investigates the way access is granted and denied by design—based on where we’re from, what we look like, how we speak, and what we own.

While involved in all checkpoints’ development, my contribution mainly lands on the ideation, prop design, audio and production for checkpoint Adopt: a foreign identity.

Checkpoint ADOPT asks guests to select a new nationality to be stamped on their passport. But there’s a catch: they will need to convince the patrollers that they can pass by saying one key phrase in their adopted country’s language. Guests listen to the phrase “Hi, can I tell you about my work?” and receive a phonetic spelling of that phrase in the language they’ve chosen, and have three attempts to pronounce it correctly.