Afaina de Jong is an architect and founder of AFARAI, an Amsterdam-based design studio working at the intersection of architecture, art, and urban strategy. Her practice challenges the boundaries of traditional architecture by engaging the existing city through an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, integrating theory, research, and design.

Committed to representing communities and cultural movements often overlooked in architectural form, de Jong develops spatial strategies that embrace diversity and difference. Through the use of alternative formal languages, colors, patterns, and narratives, her work seeks to create more inclusive and participatory experiences of space.

As both a practitioner and thinker, de Jong connects counterculture with architecture, linking the present moment to a visionary outlook on the future. Her discourse is international and intersectional, advocating for architecture that is not only seen, but also lived, shared, and deeply felt.