The 250 birdhouses project was where it all began for the Happy City Birds project. In 2010 while studying at the design school in Kolding, Denmark I got my hands on a shit load of scrapwood. For many years I had been active in the grafitti community, and noticed the many different views on the grafitti arts around the cities of Denmark. While some see it as art a big part of the public see it as vandalism. With all this scrapwood at my disposure I came up with the idea of making birdhouses as his style of grafitti / street art. Cause as I like to put it “not everyone can understand grafitti, but even my grandmother understands birdhouses”.

I created 250 birdhouses at my school in Kolding, and went on a tour around Denmark to set them all up on my Christiania bike. Some were setup separate or in small formations while others were put up in larger installations. The tour took about two weeks, and the Happy City Birds project was born, and has since developed into more than 4000 birdhouses around the world.

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