Across the three-day Deloitte Ignite festival, a diverse and surprising range of performances and experiences will take place throughout all the different spaces of the Royal Opera House and its surroundings.

Explaining the ethos behind such a diverse festival programme, McGregor reveals he was influenced by Greek philosopher Aristotle’s definition of the five senses. ‘We experience everything through our senses and, although we are by nature sight-dominated, it is through a complex network and inter-relatedness of these multiple senses that we can perceive events, artistic endeavour included,’ he says.

Taking part is a variety of artists and scientists in a specially selected programme to make us aware of spaces, bodies, times and events in new ways and through new sensations: experiencing things differently, making the unnoticed visible.

To learn more about what’s on during the three-day Deloitte Ignite festival, click an artists name to reveal a written profile and short film interview.