Federica Fava is member of research team of Roma Tre University, one of the OpenHeritage partner.

Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part in the Nouveau Grand Tour program, a cultural project stemmed from the Quirinal Treaty, signed by Presidents Macron and Draghi in November 2021.

The pact aims to strengthen relations between Italy and France in several areas, in a framework of strengthened bilateral cooperation which includes culture, art, and ecology.

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The project is developed and managed by the Institut Francais d’Italie
(IFI) / Italian French Embassy.

The program is reserved for under-30 French and German artists, and is developed through a network of artistic residencies scattered throughout the Italian territory.

In Dolomiti Contemporanee’s case, the residency takes form in progettoborca (former eni village of corte di cadore, BL), and will take place in October 2022.

List of participating residencies:

Patrons:
OFAJ (Office Franco Allemand pour la Jeunesse) – Ardian France

Residencies:
Base - Casa degli Artisti - Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa - Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte - Museo Capodimonte - Palazzo Butera - Palazzo Monti - Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore - Casa del Circo Contemporanea - Centro Teatrale Umbra - Corte Ospitale - Cross - Palazzo Grenoble - Oriente Occidente – Spazio Fattoria – Artinvita - Dolomiti Contemporanee/Progettoborca - Kulturfactory – Landworks - RAMDOM - Villa Lena – Wonder Grottole

Five sectors, five protagonists, five stories to portray a dynamic, creative and resilient Italy.

The webseries, available at the www.ideasitaly.com website, is composed of five documentary-portraits dedicared to different creative and productive sectors. Its objective: to depict stories, facets and experiences of Italy’s most innovative, virtuous and dynamic aspects to an international public.

The project aims to reflect on the leading themes of contemporary debates, specifically looking at the great ethical challenges of the future: environment, innovation, common goods – all issues today’s Italy has a lot to say about. Each story points the spotlight on Italy’s vast resources when it comes to manufacturing, culture, tourism, and the environment.

Five ideas, all emblematic in their creative, success-oriented and innovative drive to present the excellence of the contemporary Italian scene to a global audience.

Arts and Heritage: Gianluca D’Incà Levis, creator of Dolomiti Contemporanee, carries out an experimental project on the juncture between contemporary art, recovery of industrail spaces and regeneration of mountainous environments.

In the video, Gianluca D’Incà Levis speaks about the vision and approach which characterise DC in its relationship with the themes of cultural responsibility and the regeneration of heritage and landscape, through contemporary art and the experimental hubs activated inside large, crucial sites which must be reconsidered and given new function: among them are the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore, the Vajont area, the Italia Ski Jump of Cortina d’Ampezzo, linked to the Milan-Cortina Olympics of 2026.

Arts and Heritage: Gianluca D’Incà Levis, creator of Dolomiti Contemporanee, carries out an experimental project on the juncture between contemporary art, recovery of industrail spaces and regeneration of mountainous environments.

Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part in Resilient Communities, the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021 at the Arsenal. We will bring our vision, the themes of territorial regeneration and heritage, experimental practices, strategies and networks related to reuse and our idea of ​​a non-trivial and pernicious mountain.

Resilient Communities is the name of the italian pavilion, curated by alessandro melis, at the next Biennale of Architecture 2021. At the center of the exhibition, in all its drama, the issue of climate change and the demanding challenges facing the world of architecture will be addressed.

Review the Press Conference at this link.

press: biennale architettura, il padiglione italia nel segno dell’impatto zero.

On Wednesday November 18th, 2020, Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part in the online conference promoted by the Courmayeur Mont Blanc Foundation alpi partecipate. montagne in mostra (Participated alps. Mountains on display).

The speech by G. D’incà Levis, ideator and curator of dolomiti contemporanee, is titled Dolomiti Contemporanee, a creative reactivation strategy for heritage and territories.
the meeting is set for 5:30 PM on wednesday november 18th.

The conference focuses on the mountain environment as a place of cultural involvement. the workshop-like nature of the alps eases the cultural approaches of modernity, and the conference, with a new formula, designed to be enjoyed at a distance, proposes a few examples of them.

Three meetings spread out over three different evenings exploring, respectively, the regenerative actions of artistic installations and temporary exhibits in some symbolic locations inside the Dolomites, a cultural device meant for the civic participation inside a huge fort in the alto adige area and a contemporary art museum at the heart of the grisons.

They are places found in the alpine region, and they are characterised by a strong identity ‒ despite their location relative to major cities ‒ in which architecture takes on the role of an important instrument, useful to create a debate.

The widespread perception, during this complex period of human history, is that the mountain is a safe place from a health standpoint, as it allows for easy distancing.

A different audience ‒ typically used to frequenting other destinations ‒ and demanding from a cultural point of view as well, could then look at the alps as a way to search for new stimulation and enrichment.

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Click here to watch G. D’Incà Levis‘ speech on YouTube. [ITA]

Clock here to rewatch each lecturer’s speech. [ITA]

In December 2016, Dolomiti Contemporanee took part in the Eurupean Council Landscape Prize. The Application was presented thanks to the Borca di Cadore Municipality, who has been supporting Progettoborca ever since its inception.

Taking part in the Award is an integral part of DC’s design, which always works towards the expansion of its action, of the reflection which, ever since 2011, is conducted in the scope of regeneration and upkeep of Lanscape and Heritage through the tools of contemporary art, of innovation culture, and of involved networks, always keeping at the core of its practice a re-innovative and regenerative vision for the territory, and for its praxis itself.

The 2016/2017 edition of the Award.

The Commission established by the Ministry, chaired by Fabio De Chirico, General Director for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Outskirts, of MiBACT is comprised of individuals known for their efforts in cultural and landscape-related areas: Paolo Pejrone, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Marino Sinibaldi, Andrea Sisti, Carlo Tosco, Pietro Valentino.
On the basis of the actions deployed, and with regards to the objectives reached in the requalification of locations through the promotion of all historical and cultural materials and non-materials which characterise them, and considering the results obtained in terms of sustainable economic development and civil, as well as cultural, growth of local communities, the Commission has pinpointed 38 projects of particular interest.
The winning project was Agri Gentium: Iandscape regeneration.
17 other projects have received a Mention, and among them is Progettoborca, with a thematic Mention.

Following is the Mention by MiBACT, which was granted to Dolomiti Contemporanee during a Ceremony which  took place in Rome, at the Ministry, on March 14th, 2017, at the presence of President Mattarella and of Minister Franceschini:

Dolomiti Contemporanee – Progettoborca
Mention: Landscape promotion through contemporary art and architecture

It is our great pleasure, as well as thank you for having taken part in the Call being discussed, to let you know that the Commission established for the purposes of evaluating the projects selected in light of the Italian applications to the 2016-2017 Europen Council Landscape Award, has unanimously manifested a keen interest for the “Landscape promotion through contemporary art and culture”, thought to be worthy of Mention for the Promotion of landscape through contemporary and and culture.

In particular, it was found exemplary for the strategy it implemented in the recovery efforts directed towards the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, an extraordinary example of architecture and company welfare built in the 1950s, open to the public and transformed into a cultural superhub: a centre for cultural, conceptual, creative and productive research and experimentation.

]]> http://www.progettoborca.net/eng/dc-mention-in-mibact-for-progettoborca/feed/ 0 http://www.progettoborca.net/eng/guided-visits-of-the-colonia-2/ http://www.progettoborca.net/eng/guided-visits-of-the-colonia-2/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:25:30 +0000 http://www.progettoborca.net/eng/?p=2438 Every Thursday of July and August, the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the Former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be available for public visiting, accompained by Dolomiti Contemporanee‘s staff.

The guided visit will last for about an hour and a half.
Some of the main spaces of the huge Colonia, realised by Edoardo Gellner, will be visited, the project of regeneration for the site (Progettoborca) will be explained, and the pieces created inside the Colonia itself will be presented by the artists currently taking part in the Residency program at the Village.
All the Visits will begin at 3 PM, at the Progettoborca offices (former reception of the Colonia, in Via Mattei 5: please follow the road signs found inside the Village).

It is possible to sign up to the newsletter of progettoborca to always be up to date on the activities being carried out inside the former Eni Village. Please send your contact info at info@progettoborca.net.

A moment of one of the last guided visits of the Colonia. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

We want to remind you that, from the beginning of June, the Corte delle Dolomiti Resort, the Hotel Boite and the Residence Corte are open.

At this link, a file by Anna De Salvador on the main structures of the Village of Corte di Cadore, the Church included.

Photo credits: ENI Historical Archive Roma; Gellner Studio; Minoter.

H-Campus di H-Farm at the Village

Two weeks surrounded by the woods of the Dolomites to mix art, nature and digital, among 3D printers, high tech scavenger hunts and design thinking.

This summer H-CAMPUS raises in altitude thanks to the collaboration with Dolomiti Contemporanee e Minoter, inside Progettoborca, carrying out a Dolomites Digital Camp in Borca di Cadore: an experience of digital labs in environment, among nature, art and design.

H-CAMPUS is the innovative educational training project for kids and young adults developed by H-Farm, the platform of digital innovation and startup incubator launched in 2005 by Riccardo Donadon.

This edition of the H-CAMPUS Digital Camp takes advantage of H-FARM’s experience in the educational training of the youngest: with this sixth edition approaching, the program offered has been extended to cover the whole summer (from June the 13th to September the 2nd) and giving to more than a thousand kids and young adults the possibility to experience this unique event.

Through its partnership with Dolomiti Contemporanee, H-CAMPUS will take place outside the historic headquarters of Cà Tron in Roncade:  this time, the immersion will, in fact, occur, in the exceptional environmental context of Belluno’s Dolomites.

Here, in 2014, Dolomiti Contemporanee and Minoter have launched Progettoborca, an articulate regenerative platform operating for the cultural enchancement and the functional regeneration of this site, which is so important and meaningful.

And in this very site, to this day representing a unique case of social and business vision and culture, DC and H-FARM, two different projects with an outlook towards innovation, research and concrete projective vision in common, have decided to begin a meaningful collaboration, through the H-CAMPUS labs.

Dolomiti Digital Camp

During the second and third weeks of August, the Dolomiti Digital Camp will find home in the structures of the former ENI Village of Borca di Cadore.

Taking advantage of the environmental and artistic splendour of the site, the kids involved will be able to seize some spaces inside the Village and to re-think them thanks to the digital labs, to the tools of thinking design and to the workshops with the artists taking part in the project.

The kids will be supported by the teachers and tutors of H-CAMPUS, to bring them closer to a new way of exploring and enhancing the location they’re in through geocaching activities, a treasure hunt 3.0, where the GPS replaces written notes. They will get in contact with the artists currently in-residence who will be involved in the workshop, to stimulate their creativity and expressive abilities through tinkering, bringing forgotten and recovered objects back to life. They will discover how nature and digital can get in touch: moulding and scanning in 3Dimensions; learning to use simple electronic components (LittleBits) able to connect the physical and virtual world; using Minecraft to bring the Village inside the popular videogame.

It is possible to completely immerse oneself in the adventure of the Dolomiti Digital Camp stying overnight in the structures of the former Eni VIllage, but also to choose the day option, getting there in the morning to attend the labs and then go back home for the night. That is because a quota of the available spots is reserved for the people living close by.

For more info on the Digital Summer Camps program, and on the two weeks of Dolomites Digital Camp please refer to the site www.h-campus.com or write an e-mail to the following address: camp@h-campus.com

Milan Polytechnic University, Civil Architecture School, Master Degree
INTERIOR DESIGN AND PRESERVATION STUDIO 2

The experience of the Lab aims to be, first and foremost, training for the outlook, learning to observe and listen, in a new way, what surrounds us.
It is an approach and premise necessary to preserve and enhance the heritage of the Modern.
The challenge that we set for ourselves is to try and think of the Eni Village not as a cumbersome restriction, but rather as an (architectural, spatial, economical, social…) opportunity.
And then, examining the history of Gellner’s architecture, touching and studying its (often innovative and experimental) materials and the building techniques means understanding the actual possibilities of preservation and upkeep.
The objective is to enhance the existing, through its conscious transformation, which necessarily becomes an architectural project.

Professors Stefania Varvaro and Rossana Gabaglio

Tutors:
Francesca Zaffaroni, Ileana Croci, Annalisa Desole, Lorenzo Lanzani, Federico Silini, Manuel Clasadonte
Students:
Antinori Michele, Bosio Greta, Caravelli Daiana, Ceriani Ivan, Dagheti Giulia, Danaei Ahmadi, Maryam De Rosa, Filippo Delgrosso, Daniele Di Sabato, Alfonso Donghi, Matteo Grossi, Claudia Guida, Giulia Guizzi, Alessandra Livetti, Claudio Lolli, Tommaso Luini, Luca Maruelli, Elisa Mazzucchelli, Giulia Menici, Flavio Novati, Federica Pedrazzini, Thomas Pozzoli, Miriam Giuseppina, Ripamonti Ilaria, Sandroni Alberto, Turchi Chiara, Vancini Giulia

The issue’s title is “Industrail Archaeology – locations for art and culture“.
It develops in an overview of the Italian industrial heritage, dedicated to “those buildings that have been reconverted into cultural hubs, regenerating themselves in their productive and social function”.

“… from the Friuli to the Veneto Region to let G. D’incà Levis, creator and curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee, tell us, in the living Village, about how with Progettoborca, born from the collaboration with the Minoter-Cualbu group, current owner of the settlement, through contemporary art new life was given to the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, a visionary experiment of social architecture wanted by the enlightened businessman Enrico Mattei, and designed by Edoardo Gellner …“

Here a piece published on “Archeologia industriale”. [ITA]

From September the 9th the on-line voting of the project begins, marking the contest’s second phase, which will continue until November the 5th. The 10 projects most voted for by the public will be evaluated by a jury, who will determine the three winning projects. A contribution of 50.000 euros will be awared to each of them, to be used for development of their innovative cultural project.
To support this project and allow it to reach this important milestone, click here and vote for Progettoborca!

More info can be found on cheFare’s website >>

At this link, a file by Anna De Salvador on the main structures of the Village of Corte di Cadore, the Church included.

Browsable pdf: http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/IAM/ (ITA ONLY)

Here the direct link to ISSUU: http://issuu.com/archalp-iam/docs/def_15_dicembre_l  (ITA ONLY)

The first inauguration has taken place on Saturday December the 20th, at 11am, at the “Al Pojat” Etnographic Museum of Zoppè di Cadore, the piece “I Bareoli” by artist Mario Tomè, realized in partnership with Dolomiti Contemporanee was presented.
Renzo Bortolot, Zoppè di Cadore’s major, Flaminio Da Deppo, president of GAL Alto Bellunese and Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator of the exhibit, have all intervened.

Echibit’s opening times:
-  from December the 21st to January the 6th: from 4 pm to 7:30 pm.
-  after January the 6th: viewable upon request (320.2890573; 0437.791032; 0435.409903).

Following, the scheduled activities for Chiavi di Accesso:
I Bareloi
by Mario Tomè
Etnographic Museum “Al Pojat” of Zoppè di Cadore

curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis
inauguration on December the 20th 2014,11.00 am.

 
Cima
by Nicolò Degiorgis
Magnifica Comunità di Cadore (Pieve di Cadore)

acurated by Iolanda Da Deppo (GAL Alto Bellunese)
inauguration on December the 22nd 2014, 5:45 pm.

 
My Private Fog
by Michael Fliri
Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum of Cortina d’Ampezzo

curated by Alessandra De Bigontina
inauguration on December the 29th 2014, 5:30 pm.

Photos by Laura Fantacuzzi and Maxime Galati-Fourcade.

We’d also like to inform everyone of the interview, which can be found in the insert “Nova” of the newspaper “il Sole 24Ore” (October the 26th’s issue), by Mauro Garofalo with the anthropologist Marc Augé, whom has been a guest of Dolomiti Contemporanee in Borca, in August 2014.

Here the link to the article of “Io Donna”.

Here the link to the article of “Nova”.

Here the video with Augé.

Chiavi di accesso is a cultural project promoted by  GAL Alto Bellunese in the context of the Interreg IV I-A “ADMuseum”* program, to which Dolomiti Contemporanee adheres.
Speakers:

- Flaminio Da Deppo, President of GAL Alto Bellunese
- Renzo Bortolot, President of the “Magnifica Comunità di Cadore” and Mayor of Zoppè di Cadore
- Alessandra De Bigontina, Director of the “Regole Museums” – Cortina D’Ampezzo
- Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee

www.chiavidiaccesso.it [ITA]

*Partners of the project: Belluno Province, Mountain Community of the Carnia, City of Glorenza (BZ) e RegioL of Landeck (AU)

Meteorite in Giardino is the result of a partnership between Dolomiti Contemporanee, Fondazione Merz and Palazzo Riso.
The exhibit shows the participation of the artists Michael Fliri, Botto&Bruno, Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, Alessandro Piangiamore.

Paths is a photographic project by Stefano Cerio, realised thanks to a period of residence between Casso and the Eni Village of Borca di Cadore.

The exhibits will remain open until the 2nd of November.
Opening times:
from Tuesday to Sunday 10 am -12:30 pm/3:00 pm – 7:00 pm.
Closed on Monday.

Sunday August the 17th the French anthropologist Marc Augé will come to Forni di Sopra (Udine), to talk about the contemporary landscape, in an open dialogue with Gianluca D’Incà levis, curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee.
The event is promoted by the Udine Province.
Forni di Sopra is one of the heart-municipalities of the  Natural Park of the Friulan Dolomites.

On Sunday the 17th of August, Dolomiti Contemporanee curates Paesaggi Contemporanei (i.e.: Contemporary Landscapes), a day dedicated to public meetings and reflections on the contemporary landscape. The event is going to take place on the Forni di Sopra Municipality (Udine).

The day’s schedule involves a round table in the morning, and a meeting in the afternoon with the French anthropologist Marc Augé.

The morning’s guests and speakers will discuss together about today’s mountain and its potentialities, analyzing it from different perspectives.
Among the themes that will be tackled, there are the environmental aspects, the physical, social and economical landscapes, management and enterprise, art and cultural innovation, to then get to the anthropological analysis with Marc Augé, exceptional guest, already part of the jury of the international artistic contest two calls for vajont. A series of overlooks, suggestions, reflections on a non-nostalgic or contemplative mountain, on the contemporary mountain, which is alive, and can be an innovative drive.

The event is promoted by the Udine Province, and is hosted by Dolomiti Contemporanee in partnership with the Forni di Sopra Municipality, and in collaboration with the Autonomous Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the Dolomiti UNESCO Foundation, the Natural Park of the Friulan Dolomites, and Turismo FVG.

Day’s schedule

10:30am
Opening, institutional greetings

Lino Anziutti – Forni di Sopra’s mayor
Pietro Fontanini – Udine Province’s President
Maria Grazia Santoro – Friuli Venezia Giulia Region’s assessor for the infrastructures, mobility, territorial planning, public works, university
Giuseppe Verdichizzi – Assessor for the UNESCO Dolomiti, Pordenone Province

11:00am – 1:00pm
The landscapes of the contemporary mountain, round table
A public confrontation on the themes linked to territory, landscape, culture, economy, tourism of the mountain and the UNESCO Dolomites. A series of different overlooks, open to innovation, through which one means to reflect on the value of the territory  and the landscape as resources, on their perspective, on the regenerative visions that can start from them.

Panelists:
Gianluca D’Incà Levis –  Dolomiti Contemporanee’s curator
Marcella Morandini – General Secretary UNESCO Dolomites Foundation
Francesco Marangon – economist of the landscape
Pietro Fontanini – Udine Province’s President
Alessandro Del Puppo – contemporary art historian

4:30pm – 6:00pm
The human is the territory: anthropology of the places, conversation
Conversation between Marc Augé, anthropologist, and Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee. The well-known anthropologist Marc Augé will deal with various themes linked to the contemporary landscape, like the human as the manufacturer of the landscape, the anthropology of places, memory and presence, time without age.

Marc Augé is a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist, well-known on an international level. Born in 1935 in Poiteirs, he became renown on a worldwide level for his anthropological research on Western societies. He’s been head of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris.

On 1992, he invented, in the essay “Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité”, the now famous concept of non-places.

We take this occasion to remind those who are reading that Marc Augé is also part of the jury of the Internazional Contest Two calls for Vajont launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee the past 12th of June.

Il Dolomites Unesco Lab Fest is a multidisciplinar lab-festival promoted by the Unesco Dolomites Foundation for the summer 2014.
The lab-fest is presented in a very much experimental dimension in which the Dolomites are a nexus for meeting, confrontation and dialogue among the people of these mountains.

The zero edition is dedicated to the theme of the mowing (Ita: sfalcio).
The mowing, both a current and ancient theme, is the occasion to talk about the protection of the landscape, of tourism, agricolture, pasture, tradition, depopulation and return to the earth, doing it in a completely innovative way. The mowing, in the Dolomites Unesco Lab Fest, let itself be interpreted in a creative and contemporary manner, giving back a different mountain; non a stereotype, but something lively and riveting.

A crowdfounding campaign allows anyone to contribute to the realisation of the festival.

The contemporary art and culture trade magazine Artribune dedicates the cover of its number 20 (July-August 2014) to the former eni Village of Borca di Cadore.

The photo is by Sergio Casagrande and it portrays one of the many cottages of the Villages, wanted by Mattei.
Inside the magazine, an interview to Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator and creator of Dolomiti Contemporanee, in which Progetto Borca is discussed as well.

The Internazional Contemporary Art Contest Two calls for Vajont remains open until the 30th of October 2014.
The Contest, aimed to the Vajont area, is a double open call for any artist, without any distinction, upon a preliminary selection of the projects by the Inner Committee of organisation.

 a call for a line asks to devise (realise) a piece of art that marks in a creative way the line which on the night of the 9th of October 1963 signaled the height of the water in the artificial baisin as the landslide fell from Mt. Toc.

a call for a wall asks to devise (realise) a luminous sign made with neon technology for the southern façade of theNuovo Spazio di Casso.

All the info to take part in the contest on www.twocalls.net

The Contest was launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee.