This article aims to question how architects gather and create knowledge, as well as what is valued as important in architectural projects. New strategies are needed to go beyond traditional planning and building practices concerned with generic and large-scale solutions. We suggest a transgression of conventional architectural practice through feminist theory and art practice, by using the every-day, the detail, the personal and the bodily presence as a basis for knowledge production. As we will discuss, a feminist understanding of care can provide new tools for architects, planners and other spatial agents to transgress the boundaries of conventional architecture. It can enable us to create a socially and politically engaged and simply more “caring” discipline. As part of an urban mapping of the Stockholm suburb Bagarmossen, we made the film Underground Urban Caretaking to convey the qualities of subtle activities that are hidden or left out in official spatial narratives. The film shows hands occupied in crafting and making, overlaid with the sound from voices in calm dialogue. The hand often plays an important role in actions of caring - in Swedish “ta hand om” means to take care of - the hand symbolizing a care-full approach. Engaging your hands can be a key to conversation – to talk through the work of the hands.