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Fan(Emma) Bai

2019-2025 Selected Work


Fan Bai is a designer driven by a passion for representation and computational design. Her work explores innovative ways of visualizing architecture through intricate drawings, dynamic videos, and diverse visual media. Beyond architecture, she is deeply engaged with visual and digital art, continually integrating these techniques into her design practice. Her aim is to push the boundaries of space and craft immersive spatial experiences.


          

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17 THE SUBURBAN TABLE: A GAME OF UNFAIR PLAY

04/2025
Academic Work


Type: Innovative Design

Set on an ordinary table in an extraordinary place, The Suburban Table transforms familiar landscapes into a stage for critical reflection. Players navigate a gameboard modeled after suburban sprawl—cul-de-sacs, strip malls, foreclosed homes - where victory is skewed by systemic inequality, real estate speculation, and the myth of the “American Dream.” Luck favors the powerful; strategy alone cannot overcome structural unfairness.

By mimicking the mechanisms that concentrate wealth and marginalize others, this playful yet unsettling game challenges players to see suburbia not as a neutral backdrop, but as a space built on exclusion, zoning, and monopoly logic.

Will you play along - or rewrite the rules?





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