Programme
Once upon a time, we were used to crowds at the train station, now emptiness has grown familiar. Elsewhere, trees are felled to make room for outlets that sell cheap clothes from China. The grind of settling into unfamiliar surroundings (sometimes even in places we’ve long called home) and the overwhelming effect of constant change have been ascendant leitmotifs in recent years, indeed they have already been a part of our everyday experience for some time now. However, all that characterises modern life (and is even treated as a given at times) has in fact existed for less than 200 years, and is thus anything but immutable.
