What happens when we imagine the world we are creating for future generations? Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library won’t be open for a hundred years. In fact, the pages upon which it is to be printed are still growing in the Nordmarka forest in Oslo. With contributions from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Han Kang and Karl Ove Knausgård that barely anyone alive today will get to read, Chairwoman of the Future Library Trust, Anne Beate Hovind invites us to consider how this artwork challenges our perception of time.

What if you designed your own time? Artist Helga Schmid invites us into Urchonia, a time utopia in which we can remove the structures of time and listen to the other rhythms of life. Setting out her manifesto, Helga invites us to take on her time experiment.

How do you counter the relentless 24 hour news cycle? You publish a magazine with in-depth features about the news from three months ago, because sometimes it’s better to be slow.

A brave and candid account from Dr Lucy Selman about the emotional and physical toll of losing her stillborn daughter. An appreciation that the past and present can be haunting, and a future hard to imagine, but that even though grief remains, the passing of time slowly offers us perspective on the trauma in our lives.

What if our perspective of time wasn’t dictated by clocks or years, but by the rock from which this earth is constructed. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud invites us to place ourselves within the timescales of our very old and durable planet and how it instills a sense of timefulness.

Our memories shape who we are, how we perceive the world and are the only means by which we can gauge a sense of time. We spoke to psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane to discuss how our memories store a sense of place and time and how our emotions inform what we remember.

It’s easy to assume that the social construct of time is universal, yet our perception of it changes according to who we are. Edi Whitehead digs below the surface to ask questions about the inequality of time and whether there are ways in which we can centre the disparity in order to align our expectations of one another.

A short story about a clockmaker, whose life revolves around the precision of taming time, but one day wakes to find that time is not what he once thought.