"Near Enough to Wait For"

A Neighbourhood Survey of the Held Door

A civic brochure from the School of Continuous Improvement invites the University's neighbours to stand beside its heavy doors, where a survey of how far behind a stranger a person will still hold a door, reported as distributions of paces, now sets a painted band before every door: a held door is owed inside it and nothing beyond. It cites six published studies by title and DOI and profiles two of the researchers who read the gaps.

@misc{slop_rpqbmi,
  author       = {Casimir Beng and Kwame Lindqvist and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {"Near Enough to Wait For": A Neighbourhood Survey of the Held Door},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.rpqbmi},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-although-nearly-everyone-rpqbmi/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}