If you’re anything like me, you lost a week of January to Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Netflix’s reality show featuring the titular tidying guru who transforms messy houses and the humans who dwell in them using her KonMari process. That process, incidentally, is some A+ participation design. It also happens to map directly onto existing theories of participation design presently coming out of various larp scenes.
If you’ve ever wondered whether experience design has value, Marie Kondo probably has a swimming pool full of hundreds making the persuasive point that yes, participation design is highly valuable when leveraged the…