The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Brendan Foster)

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is an annual two-day celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration in South Kensington. It brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

Joseph Cotter (second from left) and a team at the Centre for Cold Matter are working on the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation. The first sea trials are being carried out with the Royal Navy on the research vessel XV Patrick Blackett. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

Henry Sewell, a research postgraduate at the Centre for Cold Matter, working on the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

A team at the Centre for Cold Matter are working on the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation. The first sea trials are being carried out with the Royal Navy on the research vessel XV Patrick Blackett. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

The Combination Dance Company taking attendees at Imperial’s Fringe festival in October 2013 on a journey through the work of Cancer Research UK.

Sean Bazanye-Lutu, an undergraduate in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, putting members of Imperial’s African Caribbean Society through their paces in rehearsals for the Afrogala, the ACS’s biggest event of the year. (Photo credit: Thomas Angus)

Jane Langton-Davies from Imperial’s Dance Society providing a practical demonstration of how important your sense of balance is during a waltz,at the Fringe Festival in 2013. (Photo credit: Carrie Prew)