The urbact project 2nd chance – waking up the 'sleeping giants'

2nd chance - waking up the 'sleeping giants' is a project network of the urbact iii programme in which the emphasis is devoted to upgrading the existing urban strategies in maribor, including culture, the economy and spatial planning, especially in the context of the revival of degraded areas and buildings with creative and cultural content. in addition to maribor, the other european cities included in the project are: the lead partner naples (italy) and partner cities: lublin (poland), gion (spain), dubrovnik (croatia), genoa (italy), chemnitz (germany), brussels (belgium), cean (france), porto (portugal) and liverpool (uk). the '2nd chance' project in maribor was focused on 'waking up the sleeping giant - kpd' and started with the first, preparatory, phase in the second half of 2015, and continued with the second, performance, phase in the middle of 2016, and finished in 2018. the abandoned kpd building of the former men's penitentiary has an excellent strategic location within the city, close to the old city centre. for this reason, it was deliberately selected within the scope of the urbact iii - 2nd chance project as an example of a degraded, unused building with large spaces and in fragmented ownership, located in a degraded area with great potential for substantial development of the city.