Does it spark joy?

Connie Svabo

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Abstract

The question is asked by Japanese clutter-clearing expert Marie Kondo in a Netflix program, where she helps North Americans deal with their many things and where she also teaches participants to fold their clothes in organized ways. The question ‘Does it spark joy?’ in my text is used in an intellectual act of folding together thoughts from situational aesthetics, vital materialism and a philosophy of mingled bodies - into a relational and processual ontology, which overcomes the subject-object divide, highlights the transcendence of self and promotes receptivity to the dynamic and open-ended character of the world. The mundanity of clothing clutter is used to develop an approach of designing with care. The metaphor of the fold is part of the composition of the argument
Original languageEnglish
JournalNordic Design Research Conference
Issue number8
Number of pages8
ISSN1604-9705
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jun 2019
EventNORDES - Who Cares?: 8th biannual Nordic Design Research Society - Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 2 Jun 20194 Jun 2019
Conference number: 8
https://nordes2019.aalto.fi/#home

Conference

ConferenceNORDES - Who Cares?
Number8
LocationAalto University
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period02/06/201904/06/2019
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