A studio course on doors: the hinges, levers, closers, signs and rules that decide who gets through a threshold without breaking stride, and who doesn't. You will audit real doors, redesign one, and build the fix.
What you will do
You will spend the semester on one object: the door. Not doors as a metaphor — the actual hinged, levered, signed, coded things you push, pull, swipe past or get stuck at several times a day without ever being asked to look at one closely. You will survey real doors on and around campus, argue in writing about what each one gets right or wrong, redesign one, and build the fix well enough that someone who has never met you could use it correctly on the first try. The artefact you leave with is a field guide: your own working typology of doors, illustrated with the ones you actually studied.
Who it is for
Anyone who has ever pulled a door marked "push," and wants to know why that keeps happening and whose fault it is. No design background is assumed, but you should already be comfortable turning a rough opinion into a written argument and taking a critique of your work without treating it as a referendum on you — Doorology runs on weekly studio crits, not lectures you can sit through quietly. If your idea of a satisfying semester project involves a tape measure, a screwdriver and a door that used to be worse, you are the audience.