ScienzEstate is back in Novoli again this year.
On Tuesday 15 September from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm the Social Sciences Library will be hosting a range of activities centred on the theme A creative, sustainable library, open to the community:
- Presentation of the bibliographic exhibition: The Francolini Collection: from colonialism to post-colonialism, in collaboration with the Historical Archives and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Florence, the Department of Political Science, and FAF – Toscana Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia
- “Escape to the library: The reverse escape room”
- Conference Europe and Peace – An open dialogue with the public, given by Leonardo Bianchi, legal scholar, and Antonio Magliulo, economic historian. This will be followed by tours of the library along the Path of Peace organised by the European Documentation Centre
- We are Europe: discover the Europe you wouldn’t expect organised by the European Documentation Centre
- Among books and ideas: a reading group linking the university and the city with the Department of Political Science
- Play with the library of objects in collaboration with the SECINA association
- A walk around the Polo organised by Giuseppina Carla Romby, architectural historian, and the poetry reading group Solchi in versi
- A tactile activity to identify seeds, bark and leaves organised by Matteo Cortigiani.
At the ‘Play with the Library of Objects’ stand, you will be able to hand in end-of-life smartphones to the Restarters Firenze Association, as part of a project to support the Jane Goodall Institute.
To view previous editions, visit the webpage on the Library’s website dedicated to ScienzEstate.
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Full programme of the September events for ScienzEstate 2026, available to download to view workshops, seminars and various science games; information on the OpenLab_Firenze Facebook page and the University YouTube channel.