HELIX Facilities

HELIX hosts high-quality professional studio and editing facilities staffed by a team of video production and creative specialists. We also offer self-record and podcasting support so that users can quickly pick-up technology to create their own media.

Our XR classroom boasts the UK’s only Omnideck, a 360-degree treadmill that enables freedom of movement in immersive learning experiences. We offer faculty, students, and industry partners a space to experiment in extended reality, fully kitted out with Meta Quest 2 immersive all-in-one headsets and high-spec PCs. 

The HELIX classroom offers users the flexibility to rapidly reconfigure and reimagine the learning environment. This space can also be used for training and development, research seminars, and conferencing. 

Multimode capabilities enable users in the classroom to connect and collaborate with those elsewhere – be they in another part of Leeds campus or on the other side of the globe.

HELIX offers high- and low-tech prototyping capabilities to enable our innovators to give form and structure to their ideas. Our growing offer includes a suite of 3D printers, a laser cutter, textiles equipment, and craft resources for testing and experimentation. This includes LEGO Serious Play kits to support our thriving LSP practitioner group. 

Co-lab is a shared workspace offering a flexible working environment and opportunities to meet and connect. Docking stations, desktop PCs and breakout furniture make for an informal environment for collaboration. 

Collborative space

HELIX partners with the University of Leeds Enterprise Academy to deliver student enterprise and entrepreneurship activities. Breakout spaces arranged around a central hub with access to coffee and kitchen create the ideal environment for ideation, design, and development.