So, do difficult times spur creativity or merely survival? It’s a question that’s been debated since time immemorial, often spot-lit when we find ourselves in the midst of challenging circumstances once more. During the first lockdown the question was posed again. How, people asked, will this time of disruption and loss affect what is being created and put out into the world? Will it lead to a visionary rethinking of systems and forms? Will it affect our art? Our culture? The clothes we wear? Like Shakespeare writing
King Lear during one plague or Isaac Newton discovering calculus during another, what new innovations or discoveries might be made here?