Happybirthdayto.[name]

Dear [name]

I am 26 and I still don’t sleep well before my birthday. I am fascinated by the charged moment of social conventions, expectations, and emotions that lie beneath a decorated layer of sweet cakes and brightly coloured plastic trash.
The happybirthdayto.[name] is an online space, situated between a research institute and a birthday party, where people from different points of view have responded to ‘what the birthday means and how to deal with it’. I am carefully glueing this daily life wisdom together, starting the collaborative ‘Philosophy of Birthdays’.

As the founding mother of happybirthdayto.[name],
(I am wishing you a) Happy Birthday, Noelle

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