V&A East has picked a team bringing together Southwark-based practice JA Projects and graphic design studio A Practice for Everyday Life as the winners of its Why We Make galleries competition for the under-construction Stratford Waterfront centre.

The firms will work with east London artist Larry Achiampong on the galleries, which will be located across two floors and explore global creativity and making through a contemporary lens – bringing together more than 500 objects from the V&A collection in the process.

The team was selected from a shortlist including Citizens Design Bureau with Hayatsu Architects; Neba Sere and Rose Nordin; Freehaus x IDK + Bergini; OMMX with HATO; and Studio C102, Mobile Studio Architects and Manijeh Verghese with Sthuthi Ramesh.

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