Sstudy room designed by Gio Ponti: 65 new seats for students to study
17.11.2022
The University of Padua adds 65 new seats that students can reserve for study. As of Monday 14 November, the study rooms of Palazzo Bo will be available Monday to Friday from 7 am to 10 pm and on Saturdays from 7 am to 6 pm.
Thanks to Palazzo Bo’s restoration project, the newly renovated study room housed with the original furnishings designed by the architect Gio Ponti returns to its splendour.
Matilde Girolami, Vice-Rector for the Right to Education Policies offers more details, The reopening of the study rooms in the headquarters of our university during the year in which we celebrate eight centuries of existence bears witness to the great attention placed on guaranteeing and constantly improving, the right to study for our students. The commitment to keep the classrooms open beyond the usual hours, and on Saturdays, means that Palazzo Bo, a symbolic place for the University of Padua, becomes even more accessible to the student community who have reanimated the halls of our university after a period of various restrictions. We hope that the historic classrooms will once again become a reference point for academic life at a time when, after two difficult years, university life returns to its full potential.”
Monica Salvadori, Vice-Rector of Historical and Cultural Heritage shares some insights, “It is with great pleasure that after carefully restoring the furnishings designed by Gio Ponti we are able to give back to the students of our University the study rooms of Palazzo Bo. The restoration project was long and complex as past maintenance operations failed to adhere to the original materials and shapes of the furnishings. In collaboration with the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan area of Venice and the provinces of Belluno, Padua, and Treviso, we were able to identify solutions that would guarantee its restoration after carefully studying the archival documentation, drawings, and period photographs conserved by the University Archives. Anchora imparo, (still learning) reads the motto found at the Scalone del Sapere designed by Ponti, it is my wish that as students return to all areas of our university they allow themselves to be distracted from their studies by the extraordinary beauty that surrounds them. We are committed to conserving and protecting the heritage which rightfully belongs to them.”
Follow the link available on the University website to learn more about initiatives dedicated to the Right to Study implemented by the University of Padua.
