Kinship Library

Visit Kinship Library or the Online Listening Platform
The installation can be seen and listened to every day between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on NDSM (opposite of NDSM Bikes) from May 16 to November 2. You can also listen to all audio stories and music online. To do this, go to the NDSM Online Archive, on this online platform, the stories are also preserved for the future.

‍Underrepresented stories of fringes and margins
Which stories hold value when a place changes? How can narratives that matter to the city be preserved? With Kinship Library, architect, researcher, and founder of architecture studio AFARAI, Afaina de Jong brings underrepresented voices to life at NDSM. From May 16 to November 2, visitors can listen to oral histories about the city, and specifically about NDSM, within an architectural installation.

Kinship Library is more than a listening experience; it is a living archive. The architectural installation invites visitors to engage intuitively with voices and sounds from various perspectives, corners, and crevices.

The audio collection weaves together narrative-driven music rooted in the diaspora, curated by Innavisions, underrepresented voices in architecture from Afaina de Jong’s own archive, and the rich history of NDSM. Personal stories of people connected to the NDSM shipyard have been recorded by Stratenmakers Audiocollectief. These memories come from former (female) workers, labor migrants, pioneering artists, and creatives who have all shaped the shipyard over the years.

About Afaina de Jong

This year marks exactly 20 years since Afaina de Jong and her studio AFARAI began challenging boundaries within the field of architecture. A central focus of her work is the representation of people and cultural movements that have traditionally been excluded from architectural narratives. She bridges the gap between subcultures and architecture. Kinship Library serves as an archive of feminist perspectives on urban development, music rooted in the diaspora, and overlooked histories connected to the NDSM shipyard.

Kinship Library has been made possible in part by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Mondriaan Fund, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and the NH Cultural Fund.