ABSTRACT
Doors involve relatively complex mechanisms and modes of operation to which we have typically become blind in our everyday life – operating them in a state of near-anaesthesia. Our everyday life is crammed with doors of different shapes and sizes, that we push and pull hundreds of times a week without ever thinking about it. In movies, doors are not just physical doors but passages into worlds of fantasy: 'You unlock this door with the key of imagination' says the narrator of The Twilight Zone, and as Dorothy opens the door in The Wizard of Oz a world in sepia turns to colour. Moles construes the door as an architectural element with movement built into it. If a door is a spatio-temporal tool in the architectural panoply, it implies that we not only experience a spatial passage between two rooms, but that we must also be cognitively aware of the time dimension and its implication.
