Borderline Delicious explores how food transcends borders, weaving histories, topology, ecology, and migrations together. As animals migrate, so do plants, changing local landscapes and biodiversity. The project embraces borderlessness by blending local ingredients with so-called invasive species – plants labelled as threats, deeply rooted in histories of colonial expansion.  The foraging-cooking workshop and the menu will reflect the modern landscape – a blend of native, non-native, invasive, and self-sprouted plants, all carried by variations of rolled-up pastries appearing all over the Mediterranean Basin.

Gaja Pegan Nahtigal, born in 1996 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is a transdisciplinary artist and designer based in Ljubljana. In 2023, she graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) with the project Stolen Tea. Her work focuses on the natural world’s cyclical growth and decay, focusing on foraging, ethnobotany, and urban ecosystems.

Liza Sočan, born in 1999 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has lived and worked in Vienna since 2019. While studying Industrial Design at Angewandte University, Sočan started working more closely with food-related topics. This also inspired her main project, a cakexploration, in which she experiments mainly with cakes, often collaborating with other creatives, such as artists, photographers and designers.

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Mejno slastno se ukvarja z vprašanjem, kako hrana prekoračuje meje in s tem prepleta zgodovine, topologijo, ekologijo in migracije. Tako kot se selijo živali, se selijo tudi rastline, spreminjajo lokalne krajine in biotsko raznovrstnost. Projekt zaobjema koncept brezmejnosti, meša lokalne sestavine s tako imenovanimi invazivnimi rastlinami, označenimi kot grožnje, kar temelji v zgodovinah kolonialnih ekspanzij. Nabiralsko-kuharska delavnica in jedilnik bosta izrazila sodobno krajino – mešanico nativnih, tujerodnih, invazivnih in samoniklih rastlin v zavitem pecivu, ki se pojavlja vsepovsod po Sredozemlju.

Gaja Pegan Nahtigal, rojena leta 1996 v Ljubljani, je transdisciplinarna umetnica in oblikovalka. Živi v Ljubljani. Leta 2023 je diplomirala na Akademiji za oblikovanje Eindhoven na Nizozemskem s projektom Ukradeni čaj. Osrednja tema umetničinega dela je svet narave, njegova ciklična rast in propadanje, s poudarkom na nabiranju sestavin, etnobotaniki in urbanih ekosistemih.

Liza Sočan, rojena leta 1999 v Ljubljani, od leta 2019 živi in ​​dela na Dunaju. Med študijem industrijskega oblikovanja na Univerzi Angewandte se je začela ukvarjati s tematikami, povezanimi s hrano. To je navdihnilo tudi njen projekt cakexploration, kjer eksperimentira predvsem s tortami, pri tem pa pogosto sodeluje s kreativci, kot so umetniki, fotografi in oblikovalci.