This September, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) will be transforming its spaces for the London Design Festival and will feature two projects by AA tutors; one completed by Akil and Seth Scafe-Smith and the other conceived of by Aude-Line Duliere and Juliet Haysom.

Made on Location is the work of Experimental 4 tutors Akil and Seth Scafe-Smith as part of their design collective RESOLVE. The project brings together their practice’s year-long Creative Youth Worker residency at the V&A and explores how museums of the future are essential spaces for local youth groups. This installation of upcycled materials is a collaboration between Blackhorse Responders, V&A East Youth Collective and other youth groups from the four London Olympic boroughs of Hackney, Waltham Forest, Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Full details of Made on Location can be found here.

Placeholders was designed by Diploma 18 tutor Aude-Line Duliere, Foundation tutor Juliet Haysom, Diploma 18 student James Westcott and an accompanying video being created by AA Alumna Ele Mun. The project, which consists of an outdoor installation and documentary, aims to discover the possibilities of reusing materials through the reworking of precious stone that once was part of the V&A building in the form of street furniture on Exhibition Road.

Full details of Placeholders can be found here.

Image: Placeholders (still), 2021. Courtesy of Juliet Haysom.