this is what I found when I was searching for our table project on the Blogger......a suitcase table, which gets closer to the idea of a portbale installation...but then again how could we sit around it? or might it be an approach to think of our final presentation -----the table---- becoming something other, a living (memorable) entity

have a look here:
http://feeddog.blogspot.com/2006/09/suitcase-table.html