Created for Science in Art exhibition, LAAB has created Harbour Cup. It’s an interactive artwork that invites people to enjoy sports, science, and art in one. It looks just like other table soccer game we know, but it has some special features, there’s no goal on either side, so, there’s no definition of teams. All players can negotiate and then decide how they want to play the game, it can be a collaboration or competition. How cool is that, heh? This art installation wants to make something familiar into unfamiliar, a situation that invites people to communicate, reflect, and even negotiate.

Harbour Cup is equipped with an array of solar-powered LED lights. Located inside the artwork, when the ball is kicked, its movement would trigger multiple capacitive sensors inside the watertight 3D-printed consoles. These sensors would turn on trajectory LED lights of the ball at night. The shiny metallic body of Harbour Cup reflects chromatic lighting from high-rise architecture of its surroundings, beautiful harbour of Hong Kong. LAAB has designed this artwork in three pieces with different heights and dimensions, because the company wants to encourages people of different ages to interact through play.