A Digital-Age "Safe House" for Mexican Immigrants

At first glance, the Casa Segura (The Safe House) may appear to function more like a miniature, digitalized Red Cross station than a work of art. The small solar-powered structures are being placed on properties across the Sonoran desert and are stocked with basic essentials such as water, medical supplies, and nutritional items. But Robert Ransick, a digital arts faculty member at Bennington College, has also equipped the structures with a dynamic bilingual web space that allows Mexican immigrants to share stories via an embedded touch screen interface.