Year: 2025
Interactive Installation

Technique: Digital sculpting, 3D printing, 3D animation, real-time 3D simulation Material: Recycled polylactic acid biobased plastic (rPLA), polylactic acid biobased plastic (PLA), rPP/biocomposite of wood fibers and recycled polymer from the fishing industry (Ocean rPPGF), quartz sand, binder, pigment, recycled thermoplastic polyester (rPETG), resin, aluminium, earthenware, recycled polylactic acid biobased plastic (rPLA) with wood fibres, lava rock, essential oil, depth camera, projectors, audio
Photo by: Carl Ander + Wang & Söderström

Tasting event in collaboration with food artist and designer Josefin Vargö

The Liminal Eatery is an immersive installation that invites visitors to interact with digital avatars. These figures can be experienced in various ways, from surveilling to friendly. Are they servants of the tech giants following you around? Or are they artificial intelligences being fed your information? For Wang & Söderström, the dinner table symbolises a place for human encounters where all our senses are stimulated. As more and more social activities are digitised, what is lost in terms of human qualities?
All parts of the installation are 3D printed by Wang & Söderström in both synthetic and organic materials. The table is designed as modules where additional parts can be assembled to form a long table – a place for participation and communal togetherness. The 3D printer was developed initially to streamline prototyping in industrial manufacturing. Wang & Söderström challenge the limits of the 3D printer through unconventional methods and materials in the creation of imaginative spatialities.