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Below you’ll find some examples of our work in all kinds of teaching spaces and lecture halls. If you’d like to look at ideas for your theatre, check out our theatres page here, for retractable seating, click here, and for ideas for your sports hall, click here.

It’s a tough balance – trying to create an inspiring and inviting campus to attract and retain the best students, while keeping a steely eye on space utilisation and revenue potential . Our well engineered and customisable lecture room furniture can help you create some truly flexible and beautiful spaces.

Traditional Lecture Theatre Seating

We can offer a wide choice of chair options and include fixed tiering if required. Choose from our Scholar or Campus seat and desk systems.

A gently sloping lecture theatre with long white desks and blue and grey seats
Scholar Lecture Theatre Seating by Audience Systems at The Oculus, University of Warwick.
A modern lecture theatre in a muted palette of colours featuring the Scholar seat by Audience Systems
Lecture theatre seating in bright reds and oranges with continuous writing desks.

Preston Hospital, University of Warwick, Queen’s University Belfast (Riddell Hall and Bells Lecture Theatre)

Harvard Style or Flexible Teaching Spaces

Where you want a room to double as a collaborative and teaching space, we can provide lecture desks with rotating seats, or we can build desks and tiers for your Harvard Style lecture theatre – just add office chairs.

Curved lecture theatre desks. The chairs have swivel bases so that students can work in groups. One of the seats is turned 180 degrees.
A lecture theatre with curved desks
A lecture theatre with curved desks and office chairs
A Harvard Style lecture theatre with curved desks

University of Durham (top), University of Leeds (bottom)

Multipurpose Seats with Foldaway Writing Tablets

For teaching spaces, our Espace T and Recital chairs are fitted with foldaway writing tablets. Both chairs can be mounted on retractable platforms.

Retractable seating with folding writing tablets. The seats are blue and grey.
Seats with folding writing tablets in a colourful learning space
A close up of an open folding seat with a black writing tablet in position and ready to use.
A lecture space with green seats with folding writing tablets.

Conference Seats

For conference auditoria, we offer exceptionally comfortable fixed auditorium seats with writing tablets. Our Soprano and Mezzo chairs can have generous foldaway tablets, while Alto has the option of a super-neat Elegante tablet.

A comfortable auditorium chair with a folding writing tablet.
A conference room with high specification seats with timber backs and red upholstery. Folding writing tablets are in place and ready to use.
A small contemporary conference room with striking blue auditorium seats, each with a folding writing table.
A lady in a conference room. She is folding a writing tablet into a housing in the chair in front.

Retractable Lecture Theatres

A whole lecture hall rapidly packs away into the space of one row of seating, freeing the room for other uses. The closed unit can be transported to a different room for storage if required. Choose from continuous writing tablets (our Campus Fold Down system, shown below) or individual writing tablets (shown above).  You can also add removable Matrix seating on the floor in front of the retractable tiers to add more capacity.

A lecture theatre on retractable platforms. There are continuous writing desks in front of each row of chairs.
A lecture theatre on retractable platforms. There are continuous writing desks in front of each row of chairs.

The Audience Systems Difference

We’re confident in the longevity of our products – we offer a ten year guarantee on the understructure of our retractable seating, and a lifetime guarantee on the mechanism of our “Scholar” lecture theatre seating. We’re happy to visit you every time you refurbish or build a new space, discuss the optimum solution and provide free CAD design. Dedicated to outstanding service during and after seating installation, our business includes the UK’s largest seating servicing operation.

 

Our Venue Types pages are designed to give you just a flavour of the options available for your room. Please browse our solutions section for more inspiration. Alternatively, you can view some case studies or contact us.