Afaina de Jong / AFARAI & InnaVisions - Alignment

From Dutch Design Week 2022 onwards, new work by Afaina de Jong can be seen in the three display cases at Eindhoven Airport. In this presentation, De Jong reveals that design and architecture play a role in bringing communities and histories to the foreground that have been excluded in the past.

Afaina de Jong

Afaina de Jong leads the Amsterdam-based architecture firm AFARAI and is Head of Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. In 2021, she presented her research The Multiplicity of Other in the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum, she has created new work for Eindhoven Airport, which was developed in collaboration with Piet Hein Eek, Eindhoven Airport and the city of Eindhoven.

Feel The Vibe

With the multiyear collaboration Feel the Vibe, Eindhoven Airport and the Van Abbemuseum have been welcoming visitors to the city of Eindhoven since 2020. The first edition showed works by The Ruggeds and Tijs Rooijakkers. The installation in 2021 featured work by three student collectives from MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven: Hokjesdenkers, Percolate Collective, and re_move.