One World

Catch up with all the events from the Great Exhibition Road Festival: One World. Can science and the arts help inspire a greener future for the planet we share? Celebrate our remarkable world and explore how together we can protect its future against the threat of climate change.

Climate Justice

How can we ensure equality and basic human rights are preserved in the pursuit of saving the planet?

Eco-murals: Bringing the biodiversity crisis to our city centres

Scientists and artists discuss their work and the role public art can play in bringing a community together to take action against human-induced mass extinction of life on Earth.

Human Health and Planetary Health

Find out how changing our diet could not only improve our health, but also tackle climate change, address biodiversity loss and stave off the next global pandemic.

Inside the Crystal Palace: the must-see exhibition of Victorian England

Join an exclusive visit to the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World’s Fair,.

Eco-anxiety: Climate change’s toll on our mental health

Find out how the fight to save our planet could also improve our individual and collective wellbeing.

Meet the UK's Green Poet

Thirteen years ago, Martin Kiszko decided to educate himself about the world’s various environmental crises, by challenging himself to write one green poem a week for a year.

Solving urban air pollution and green mobility

Learn how public health data, better air quality monitoring and smart green mobility could make our cities healthier places to live and explore.

Discovering science through children’s non-fiction picture books

Illustrators and writers celebrate the transformative power of an overlooked section of children’s literature to communicate science.

Dressing Green

Explore how new technologies, eco-business models and better regulatory oversight might end fast fashion and benefit the planet.

Treephonia

Enter an immersive soundscape located in Kensington Gardens and hear new music written by 17 composers from the Royal College of Music.

Who's leading the climate conversation?

Explore the ways science, governments, fossil fuel lobbyists and environmental campaigners have changed how we talk about climate.

Crafty Science

Celebrate craftmanship, its links to material science and its potential to challenge our throwaway culture through a greater appreciation of how things are made.

Darwin's Coral Reefs and the Future of Ocean Life

Explore historic collections that could predict the future of marine ecosystems with the Natural History Museum’s coral reef curator Miranda Lowe.

Earthsong: science inspired poetry against climate change

A cross-cultural feast of science and poetry, investigating the danger our natural and human landscapes are facing across the globe and what we can do about it.

Making stuff greener

Explore the much-needed revolution in our manufacturing sector, from advanced energy and material efficiency to carbon capture, to new building materials and green chemistry.

Sound tracking the rainforest: An audio-visual exploration of deforestation in Costa Rica

Immerse yourself within the sights and sounds of a forest ecosystem under threat with this digital artwork created by art collective super/collider.

A Day in the Life of a STEM Education Director

Meet Pallavi Malhotra, and hear about her career, the widening digital skills gap, and her mission to recruit fresh STEM talent.

Weaving Waste

Get creative with the contents of your recycling bin and discover some of the surprising ways new life is brought to waste materials by artists and engineers.

Nature Live Online

A panel of Millennials and Generation Z discuss some of the core issues at the heart of the planetary emergency in their fight to protect the future of our planet.

Innovating for a Greener Future

Climate change is humanity's greatest threat yet, in the face of such challenge, creativity abounds.

Discover the Great Exhibition

Discover the incredible story of the Great Exhibition of 1851. From its controversial planning process to its exhibitors, visitors and long legacy, you’ll uncover an event unlike any other.

Extreme weather forecasting in a warming world

Explore why severe weather warnings don’t always lead to simple life-saving public and government action, and why climate change means we need to get this right.

Unloved Animal Club: Creatures in the climate crisis

Our warming planet threatens life on every continent. Seven scientists present seven vulnerable species that need more appreciation and protection as the world changes.

Family Festival Quiz

Join us for some green entertainment with the return of our Festival Family Quiz!

Black History Month - A day in the life of the Grenfell gardener

Black History Month - A day in the life of a climate finance expert

Black History Month - A day in the life of a Renaissance art historian

Black History Month - A day in the life of a classical musician

Black History Month - A day in the life of a curator of deep-sea creatures

Black History Month - A day in the life of a green manufacturing engineer

Family activities

Enjoy these fun science and art activities for you and your family. Explore nature and the world around you, and think about how to look after it in the face of climate change.