Doors 2015

In indoor physical spaces, the door is the main obstacle to entering and exiting rooms and hallways. From a usability perspective, Donald Norman is celebrated for wondering how "such a simple thing as a door" can be "so confusing" [7]. The door as physical object has been transformed metaphorically into a transportation device that allows us to completely shift our perspective from one location to the next. The object itself is often imagined as a "portal" between spaces and worlds, as it was in 1950 in the quintessential fantasy novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. The children in the story open an apparently ordinary wardrobe door and are transported to the magical world of Narnia. Many other movies and stories use doors as portals through time and space, such as the phone booth door in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.