The idea of home transcends species. A home is a space to feel safe, belong, and find refuge from the outside world, reflecting a profound more-than-human phenomenon. For birds that constantly migrate, the meaning of home changes with the landscape. Sometimes it is survival, sometimes comfort and security, and sometimes familial growth. All this comes down to one exhibition, Home Sweet Home (starting from 11 March to 25 April), at MAD Brussels 2026. It reimagines birdhouses through playful design and emotional intensity, exploring the meaning of home as more than a tangible structure.
The exhibition is curated by Zurich-based Connie Husser, an interior stylist and owner of ‘Object With Love.’ This fun project brings together over 75 Belgian and international designers to showcase their take on traditional birdhouses. The birdhouses might be distinct in design, but not in their mindset, which involves care, beauty, and living for both humans and nature. The exhibition denotes that coexistence is possible when love and empathy are included.
Demonstrating the love in her creation, Kajsa Willner is among the diverse group of exhibitors who display their interpretations of old-style birdhouses at the aforementioned exhibition. It’s her second time bringing her quirky, craft punk attitude, as she describes it, to the exhibition with Entita Birdhouse. The birdhouse is designed especially for marsh tits, an endangered species found mostly in deciduous woodland habitats.
I created a birdhouse specifically designed for the marsh tit. The exhibition brings together 80 unique birdhouses by designers from around the world and explores the intersection of design, architecture, and nature…This approach reflects my Craft Punk attitude toward contemporary design, where overlooked materials are transformed into new objects
– Kajsa Willner
She hand-sculpted the entire structure using reclaimed wood sourced from local carpenters. This instinctive use of organic material gives each piece of wood the freedom to guide the form. So, instead of being structurally lined and accurate, the birdhouse takes cues from the architecture of shelters that birds make in the wild. The structure’s quirky unevenness makes this birdhouse special, emotional, and more connected to the elements of nature.
To make the house more fitted for the birds, it is spray-painted in the marsh tit’s soft beige tone. The front panel of the birdhouse is crafted with shou sugi ban and finished in a glossy black, mimicking the bird’s own black crown. Kajsa employs her multidisciplinary identity by embellishing the birdhouse with tin silhouettes of insects, worms, and flies, which the marsh tit feeds upon the most during summer.
With Entita Birdhouse, she explores the uncharted territories of material use, design, form, and color, reinforcing the idea of the birdhouse as both a functional and playful structure and a home. She encourages introspection among humans about what it means to cohabit. Not every human intervention is destructive; sometimes it could mean lending a hand from one species to another.
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