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This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.In the post-SecondWorld War period in the Netherlands, a women's organization set the agenda forimproving the quality of social housing projects. Through bureaucraticprocedures, the Vrouwen Advies Commissie(VAC, Women Advisory Committee) managed to open a path for women's interventionsat the Municipality of Rotterdam, whileexpanding its network from 1946 to 1994 to more than 285 VAC sections in the Netherlands.Consciously or not, those voluntary consultants were also making politics anddefining space. Their expertise influenced housing and urban design. However,their early role as organizers of model home exhibition remains underexplored.Why did the VAC Rotterdam consider organising model homes exhibitions necessary?What bureaucratic techniques were used? In what spatial articulations did theirpractices result? This article unveils the conceptual and design work of theVAC through the model homes exhibitions they produced in the post-warneighbourhoods of Rotterdam in the early 1950s. The research reveals that,before the well-known model homes exhibited in the Netherlands by thefoundation Goed Wonen to improve home furnishing standards during themid-1950s and 1960s, the VAC made pioneering efforts in strengthening thepublic's relationship with social housing and practical interior design.