Extreme heat places a disproportionate and, in many ways, an invisible burden on women engaged in unpaid domestic work like cooking and managing households. Unpaid domestic work is uncounted in economic data, while the stifling indoor heat of kitchens and living spaces remains absent from policy, hidden within private walls, and largely unacknowledged in public discourse. Indoor temperatures can often exceed outdoor ones, and in poorly ventilated, tin-roofed homes, routine domestic work becomes a health hazard.

 

Co-created with women homemakers by Sonali, Communications Lead, SFC and Pritish Bali, this project documents their personal struggles with rising heat and how women adapt with resourcefulness, finding small yet often inadequate ways to stay cool and ease discomfort. Through their voices, we glimpse their struggles, creativity, and the everyday strength that keeps homes and care going in a warming world.

 

The exhibit will be up for public viewing from 11 – 14 December 2025, at Conscious Collective, an initiative by Godrej Design Lab.

 

Register here.