Domains of conduct

Domains of conduct -- the settings, places, environments that we traverse, cross, violate, transgress, produce and recognise.

Got interested in this idea when looking at an architectural account concerning 'gates' in traditional Chinese architecture. That is, communities, compounds, collections of dwelling spaces, that are noticable for the use of 'gates'.

My 'gate' (in the most coarse physicalist sense) in the dwelling in which I currently reside consists of two doors -- one that opens directly onto a street and one that is just behind this door. A common feature of English terraced dwellings I'd imagine.

I am quite taken with more contemporary Chinese dwellings -- which have a central courtyard (gated, of course). This allows for more transition space between domains of conduct (e.g., a public domain and a more private domain).

Perhaps I need to get a gated courtyard that I can carry around in public -- or is that what an ipod is for?