About
I am Jordan Mafumbo — British-Ugandan writer, architect, civil engineer, and researcher, currently employed in Belgium, and preparing a move to Nairobi, a city with colossal energy, a convoluted history, and a constantly-changing landscape.
Practice
I am a senior engineer at ***M Architects, an architectural, construction, and interior design practice. It’s engaged in the aforestated fields, with a focus on thoughtful craftsmanship and sensitive building techniques. I am also a research fellow at ****A Institute.
Affiliations
I am a SPAB Fellow (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, UK), an INTBAU Member (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism), a Commonwealth Heritage Forum Member, an IRCICA Fellow, an INTBAU Belgium Alumnus, a Georgian Group Member, and an Emergent Ventures Fellow.
Crafts & pursuits
Alongside my practical work in architecture and engineering, I pursue, to a skilled extent, architectural film photography, makuti roof weaving, coral stone quarrying, sand mining, wood carving, and tile hand-crafting.
Research interests
I maintain longstanding research interests in philosophy, aesthetics, economics, and literature; in the works of Juan Rulfo, Martin Heidegger, Al-Mutanabbi, Roger Scruton, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Molière, Wadada Nabudere, John Mbiti, among others.
Currently Building
I am currently building an AI tool, within Salama, the startup that I founded in late 2025. The concept behind the tool is to train a Large Multi-Modal Foundation Model on a large range of code corpora including building standards, historical forensic reports, satellite data, simulation outputs, among others. The model simplifies structural design by outputting compliant, auditable designs with an input of dimensions, site co-ordinates, among others.
The second tool that I am building, in stealth, is one that is aimed at simplifying urban planning in Nairobi. It involves training a Large Multi-Modal Foundation Model on GIS data, real-time and historic population, mobility, and utility data, among others. With this data, it runs predictive stress-test simulations and identifies both recurring stress points, and where the stress is a result of growing density breaching water, power, and road capacities. Despite relying on real-time and historic data, it delivers temporally spaced updates/alerts, intervals varying with infrastructure type.
This site
Herein lies a collection of assorted writings and selected works.
Contact
You can reach me by email: mafumboj at gmail dot com. My replies are not delayed.
This site has been running since 2026.