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What if we recognised “A Women’s Touch” officially as a form of professional design? The way they placed water in a courtyard so it caught the morning sun, or shifted rooms with the seasons, or traced rangoli not as art but as a daily act of renewal. For centuries, women have shaped the way homes felt, where comfort gathered, where rituals began, where families belonged. But their authorship was never named. It was called instinct, care, the “woman’s touch.” This series asks: what if that had always been called design? Would our idea of beauty look different? Would power? Would history? What are some of the most memorable ways the women in your life designed spaces, unknowingly and instinctively?Think of the home you grew up in, what’s one small thing a woman did there that made it feel alive? [women in design, architecture of belonging, invisible labour, Indian homes, design history, gendered spaces, Sakhee Collective]