Afaina de Jong founded AFARAI in 2005 in Amsterdam, an interdisciplinary practice that treads the line between art and architecture. The practice has worked on projects with many renowned institutions around the world, including the design of the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 2021, which was then on display at the UN earlier this year, and Space of Other for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. De Jong is the head of the Contextual Design MA department at Design Academy Eindhoven and has lectured at Columbia University GSAPP in New York, KTH in Stockholm and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.