COVID-19 Monopoly

Conceptual board game during Covid-19, 2020

COVID-19 Monopoly is a conceptual board game, born from February to July 2020. Due to the virus, human beings have completely entered an exceptional state. Restricted free access, comprehensive surveillance, safe distance between individuals and others, the ambiguity between work and leisure...These phenomenons have contributed deep memories to 2020, but we are living in an era of information explosion, many information is quickly forgotten by mass with the coverage of new information. 

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This game comprises real news events. Based on the original monopoly rules, players will encounter some events randomly. Regarding economic damage, violence, and political conspiracy, the COVID-19 monopoly can be regarded as an archive of the pandemic. At the same time, its rules imply that participants in the complicated globalization are sometimes passive and sometimes active, but we cannot escape the "Apparatus" of this era.