Using the campus
Study, collaborate and connect.
Sloane Robinson Building
The Sloane Robinson Building is surrounded by new public landscapes and accessed via University Square. You can enjoy cafes, meeting spaces, and dedicated facilities for community work.
Civic spaces
The Bristol Rooms and Story Exchange are dedicated spaces for collaboration between communities, businesses and organisations.
The Bristol Rooms
The Bristol Rooms is a co-working space for staff, students, and partners to tackle shared societal challenges.
The Story Exchange
The Story Exchange is a unique circular events space for civic dialogue. It's designed to be non-hierarchical and welcoming to support engagement, including complex and sometimes contested issues facing society.
Find out more about how you can work with us.
Meet and eat
Whether you’re working, studying or just visiting the campus, there are lots of food and drink options for you to enjoy.
Food Quarter
A Food Quarter serves a variety of diverse, healthy and affordable options. On sunny days you can have your lunch on the terrace overlooking the harbourside.
Café and Bar
The Source Exchange Café and Bar in the Exchange Hall can be accessed directly from University Square and offers speed, value, and sustainability.
The seasonal menu, has a variety of breakfast, lunch, and all-day options and the bar serves a range of drinks.
The Food Quarter and Source Exchange cafe will be open from 8 September.
Public art
We commissioned three public pieces of art for the new campus which are inspired by the people and stories of Bristol.
- Charting ChangeLed by Bristol-based artists Ellie Shipman and Jack Stiling who worked with people across the city. They explored the industrial history of the area alongside its technological potential to co-create temporary artworks and events. These have now inspired a permanent artwork for the Story Exchange.
- Public RealmWood and Harrison have created a major landmark artwork for the campus. This will enhance the Exchange Hall and be the first impression for visitors.
- Wild SpacesRoom 13 Hareclive is a project which explores local ecology through participatory activities and temporary artworks, highlighting nature across the city. This artists’ studio is co-run by children from Hareclive Primary in Hartcliffe. Their final short film showcases the connections the young artists uncovered between the city and nature.
Green and connected spaces
With our new campus comes new public outdoor spaces for the city.
University Square has natural planting and seating areas and connects the campus to Bristol Temple Meads new station entrance. On the other side of the building, the harbourside walkway leads pedestrians and cyclists to and from the city along the water’s edge.
The landscape has been planted with over 130 mature trees to provide biodiversity-boosting habitats. The campus is home to bird boxes, swift boxes, kingfisher tunnels, grey wagtail nest boxes, black redstart boxes, bat boxes, insect towers, and bee posts.
In Totterdown Basin, a biodiverse habitat and seasonal flowering, along with improvements to the existing wet woodland, support insects, pollinators, amphibians, and small mammals.