What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Lectures#
Doorology runs on six lectures and twelve studio sessions, not the other way round. A lecture hands you vocabulary and cases you couldn’t get from your own doors alone — affordance and signifier, security theatre, prototyping fidelity — and the studio sessions that follow put it to work.
Opening lecture
What Doorology is, why a whole studio semester fits inside one object, and what the four assessments actually ask of you
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Hardware and what it tells you
Affordances, signifiers and the vocabulary for judging a door before you ever touch it
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Doors that pass and doors that work
Why a door can look fine at eye level and still fail the person trying to get through it
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Security theatre, at door scale
The gap between hardware that provides security and hardware that only performs it
Week 7 · 12 April 2027
Making it testable
Matching a redesign to a prototyping method that actually lets someone else try it
Week 9 · 26 April 2027
Doors elsewhere
A last, wider look at doors outside this semester's own set, before you write the categories down for good
Week 12 · 17 May 2027