{"id":3044,"date":"2011-05-02T19:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/05\/02\/gender-knockers-the-function-of-a-doors\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T01:29:25","slug":"gender-knockers-the-function-of-a-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/05\/02\/gender-knockers-the-function-of-a-doors\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>gender knockers<\/p>\n<p>The function of a door\u2019s threshold is to provide access as well as to keep a dwelling safe. This obsolete piece of Iranian Gender Architecture did not focus on the intentions of the visitor (if he was a friend, a thief, a vendor or a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing); but rather on safety understood from religious culture, and aiming to avoid mixed encounters.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deconcrete.org\/2011\/04\/08\/gender-knockers\/\">deconcrete<\/a>\u00a0everyday urbanism without architects&rsquo; architecture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gender knockers The function of a door\u2019s threshold is to provide access as well as to keep a dwelling safe. This obsolete piece of Iranian Gender Architecture did not focus on the intentions of the visitor (if he was a friend, a thief, a vendor or a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing); but rather on safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-N6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4564,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/20\/i-heart-fandiyaaru-kakuni-the-need-for-a\/","url_meta":{"origin":3044,"position":0},"title":"I Heart Fan&#8217;diyaaru Kakuni: The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun","author":"monochromist","date":"January 20, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"I Heart Fan'diyaaru Kakuni: The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronounfandiyaarukakuni: What is a gender-neutral pronoun? 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