About
AFARAI is an urban design agency that specializes in creating concepts and events for active, creative and competitive cities. We use a hands on approach and investigate the opportunities for development in contemporary cities.
Our bottom up approach and international network of creatives helps us to contextualize what is going on in a global perspective. And even more so, to distill strategy for the development of the city, visions for the future and communication strategies to create creative and live-able environments.
As more and more people are living in urban environments, the city has become our habitat. And as humankind is slowly becoming an urban species, our cities are becoming ever more complex. Unique and creative strategies are needed to define new relationships between the city and its inhabitants.
AFARAI is lead by Amsterdam based architect Afaina de Jong. As an Architect-at-Large Afaina believes in the practice of an active achitecture that goes beyond just making buildings. She has worked internationally with the likes of AMO-OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 2×4 in New York, and the Hakuhodo Think Tank HILL in Tokyo. She is an contributing editor for MARK Magazine since the beginning and continues to write on urban phenomana ad subjects on the crossroads of architecture.
