26. 3. 2025 reCITYing / Rebuilding the City
reCITYing / Rebuilding the City
series of presentations of architectural and community projects
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 18:00-20:00
Judgement Tower, Pristan 8, Maribor
A series of short lectures by prominent Slovenian architects and urbanists will reveal well-known and lesser-known projects for the reactivation of urban architectures, urban districts and other vacant spaces. Architectural heritage, medieval urban fabric, empty building pits and abandoned quarries can be the scenes of success stories of rebuilding community life and returning spaces to the city and its inhabitants.
We invite you to a unique opportunity to meet the architects behind the successful renovations of the once-closed Judgement Tower (Sodni stolp) and the just recently renovated Lent; to learn about the planned new life of the nearby Žički Dvor; to enter the planned renovation of a decades-abandoned granary in Ptuj; and to discover how visual constitutionalists and the next generation of architects are thinking about abandoned building sites and quarries.
Empty spaces of architectural and natural heritage with thousands of years of sediment and many transformations are the building blocks of the rebuilding of the city. In Maribor and beyond, major shifts are taking place in this field. Let's get to know them together with their creators!
The lectures will be held in English.
Programme:
18:00 — Introduction
Saša Arsenovič, Mayor of the Municipality of Maribor; Simona Vidmar Čelik, UGM Director; Stojan Skalicky, Architect
18:10 — Challenges and Traps Make Things Interesting
Jurij Kobe, Architect and Founder of ATELIERarhitekti
18:30 — The City and the River – The Case of Lent
Prof. Maruša Zorec, Architect and Founder of Arrea Architecture; Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
18:50 — Dialogue with History
David Mišič, Architect and Founder of Styria Arhitektura
19:10 — Reconstructing Atmosphere: Urban Design and Phenomenology – The Case of Vojašniški Trg in Maribor
Assist. Prof. Rok Žnidaršič, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, and Jerneja Fischer Knap, Architects and Co-founders of Medprostor
19:30 — Abandoned Quarries: Places of Crime or Spaces of Poetic Imagination
Assist. Prof. Gašper Medvešek, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
The programme is accredited by ZAPS.
Admission to the event is free.
The event is part of the reCITYing project. Reactivating Unused Urban Spaces Through Architecture and Arts 2024–2028, which brings together partners from Maribor, Genoa, Barcelona, Hannover and Montpellier and is co-funded by the European Union.
