Cosmic Bloom
Cosmic Bloom is an immersive dining installation that transforms a shared meal into a living, multisensory encounter with the metaphor of blooming. As participants sit around a long table, animated projections bloom across the surface in response to their movement. With each course—tea, dinner, dessert—visuals shift, floral aromas rise, and the environment evolves. Taste, touch, scent, motion, and light converge to create an ephemeral, collective experience of edible beauty.
Designed as a fully sensorial space, the project invites participants to eat, move, and perceive not just food, but presence itself—as a choreography between body, flower, and atmosphere.
Year of Creation
Type
2020
Multisensory Dining
Materials
Projector, Kinect motion sensor, projection-mapped dining table, handmade flower-based meals and teas, custom floral tableware, remodeled dining space
Flower-based Food
Flower-based Tableware
Concept
Inspired by TeamLab’s spatial media environments, Cosmic Bloom reimagines the act of eating as a form of blooming. Each flower, like each meal, holds a story of transformation, season, and ritual. In this project, the flower becomes a metaphor for life’s richness, delicacy, and renewal.
The choice of red, yellow, and blue—the primary colors—underpins the visual system of the projections, forming a chromatic landscape where every movement becomes a brushstroke. Alongside this, the meals feature flower cakes from my childhood and infused floral teas, grounding the immersive experience in memory, place, and cultural identity. The result is a sensory journey that draws from both personal and universal imagery of blooming.
Blossom Dining Experience
Multisensory Design
The installation is structured around the five senses:
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Sight: Projection mapping across the dining table reacts to movement and touch, simulating the blooming and dispersal of digital flowers.
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Sound: Ambient tones accompany the shifts in projection, enhancing spatial immersion.
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Smell: Floral-scented teas release fragrance into the air during the dining sequence.
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Touch: Participants interact with textured, flower-carved custom tableware, designed not only for function but for haptic appreciation.
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Taste: The menu includes flower cakes, floral teas, and a rotating seasonal main dish—inviting the audience to consume the symbol of the flower in its many forms.
Each element is choreographed to unfold sequentially across the meal, guiding the participant through a blooming that is both internal and external.
Multisensory Design
Spatial Setup
The work was installed in a reconfigured conference room, transformed into a poetic dining chamber. A long table anchors the space, fostering face-to-face exchange. Overhead, a ceiling-mounted projector and Kinect sensor create a reactive field across the tabletop, registering body movement and hand gestures in real time.
Participants were served in three phases—tea, dinner, dessert—each accompanied by corresponding visual changes. As they reached for dishes or interacted with the space, the projections bloomed outward, responding like petals to light. The design blurs boundaries between private ritual and shared spectacle, between stillness and motion.