Resources/ Films
University Design Forum has over the years commissioned a number of films covering a range of issues associated with the design and delivery of Higher Education Estates.
International Study Tour to Paris
A short film from the Paris International Study Tour 2026
International Study Tour to Dublin
A short film from the Dublin International Study Tour 2025
International Study Tour to Antwerp
A short film from the Antwerp International Study Tour 2025
International Study Tour to Rome
A short film from the Rome International Study Tour 2024
Berlin Study Tour 2023
A short film from the Berlin International Study Tour 2024
The HEDQF Student Prize 2020 at the University of Sheffield
Student Prize presentations from Kelubia Onaro, Charlie Perriam, Kristie-Lee McAreavey and Kanai Shah.
LSE Centre Building – an in depth look at sustainable design
Planned to be the location for the HEDQF Annual Conference, RSHP won an RIBA competition to design LSE’s Centre Building in 2013. This gave RSHP an opportunity to design a building to reflect the values of LSE, achieve BREEAM “Outstanding”, delivering innovative and inspirational teaching spaces including a new prototype ‘LSE style’ lecture theatre, and providing departmental space to encourage collaboration and dialogue between departments. Key to the project was the creation of a substantial new public square at the heart of the LSE campus.
Aude@25
A short film celebrating twenty-five years of university estates development in the UK produced by the Higher Education Design Quality Forum for the Association of University Directors of Estates on the 25th anniversary of their founding in 1992. The film had a royal premier at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School on 10th April 2017 in the presence of HRH The Duke of York.
Resurrection
A film by Rod McAllister and William Pine for HEDQF. Supported by AUDE and Sheppard Robson. The subject is the conversion of existing buildings for use in Higher Education. The production highlights six examples with interviews of those involved. The issues raised by the film include increasing sustainability, contributing to regeneration and community, saving threatened building of architectural or historical merit, refocusing universities on city centres or providing universities with rural outposts.
ReVision
What are universities for? Where are they going? How is their quality measured? Is this achieved by design or evolution? These are some of the questions to be put to key university figures in the UK in a short digital movie by the RIBA’s Higher Education Design Quality Forum. The point of view comes from an uncertainty about the future. Short-term funding cuts and long-term shifts in expectation and technology contribute to this uncertainty. How will the sector develop to enhance the quality of the university experience whilst providing higher education?
small budget BIG IMPACT!
A Royal Institute of British Architects Higher Education Design Quality Forum film about eight UK university architecture and engineering projects display imagination and innovation with a small budget to deliver a big impact.
Out of the Box
A short film showcasing some European universities and how they are distinguishing themselves with radical architecture, design and branding. To achieve their ambition, many have reinvented the academic workplace. Produced, directed and presented by Rod McAllister; filmed and edited by William Pine; on behalf of HEDQF; for AUDE; supported by Osbourne and Sheppard Robson.
Opening of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building 1998
Work on the new Imperial College School of Medicine building started in 1997. The Queen opened the completed building, which was to be named the Sir Alexander Fleming Building, on 21 October 1998 and, at the same ceremony, presented the college with its new royal charter. The ceremony took place on the balcony overlooking the atrium, which is in the centre of the building.