Meet Christine, a lifelong resident of Stratford, an old Victorian railway town and industrial area in East London, which was suddenly transformed when it was announced as the home of the 2012 Olympic Games.

These films are produced by Land Talk, drawn from Land Talk Conversations with observers.

From cities to farmlands, rivers to bayous, and beaches to mountains, the world around us is constantly changing. Land Talk is a citizen science and environmental history project that documents through Conversations how local landscapes change over time. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for dialogue between generations, and a chance to learn from observers about changes they have seen.

Land Talk is hosted by Stanford University. Hundreds more conversations are available to explore at https://landtalk.stanford.edu/

Directed by Laura Mahler