happybirthdayto.[name]
platform for establishing a collaborative and continuously growing Philosophy of Birthdays
Hosted byThis project is now archived and was part of DDW20
This project is part of
Graduation Show - Contextual Design
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Graduation Show - Contextual Design
Head of the Birthday Philosophy Department
Ronald Smits
Happybirthdayto.[name] is an online and (pop-up) 'real life' platform, that hosts and archives an artistic research project on the charged moment of social conventions, expectations, and emotions that lie beneath the birthday's decorated layer of sweet cakes and brightly coloured plastic trash.
Dear [name],
I am 26 and I still don’t sleep well the night before my birthday. It is a yearly returning moment where my thoughts and feelings are quite a mixed bag.
These experiences are the starting point for this project. Since a year, I design a
Me in relation to my birthday - self portrait
Noëlle van den Dungen
a collage of birthday sign up forms
Noëlle van den Dungen
