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Where the Moon Touches the Street

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Karolina's final design project located in Havana, Cuba challenges the gendered division of space and time, rejecting the notion that streets belong to men by day and women by night. Drawing on the symbolism of the moon in Taino and Afro-Cuban traditions, ancient wisdom is connected to contemporary urban challenges to…

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Karolina's final design project located in Havana, Cuba challenges the gendered division of space and time, rejecting the notion that streets belong to men by day and women by night. Drawing on the symbolism of the moon in Taino and Afro-Cuban traditions, ancient wisdom is connected to contemporary urban challenges to illuminate the unseen, bringing women's experience's to light of the moon.

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Karolina Hejduk
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University of Westminster

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