Contest
The 1BBDC (First Borca Boulder Dolomiti Contest) is a bouldering-in-environment contest which Dolomiti Contemporanee plans on carrying out during the course of 2016 inside the former eni Village of Borca di Cadore, “cultural climbing hub” launched in 2014 through Progettoborca.
It’s a cultural project, developed inside PBLab. The Party Block Association (Belluno) will curate the sporting event.
Dolomiti Contemporanee and Progettoborca
In 2014, the current owner of the site (Minoter-Cualbu Group) has entrusted Dolomiti Contemporanee with the task of launching a cultural enchancement and functional re-thinking program regarding the structures inside the site.
Thus, Progettoborca came into being, as a regenerative platform, operating through contemporary art and culture of vertical action, trying to pinpoint concrete measures and practices for the relaunching of this extraordinary site.
What is, then, a program of cultural enhancement?
It is, quite simply, the will and ability to climb the residual potential of the site, which is tremendous, huge, intact. And which needs to be revived.
The aim, here is to trace new paths, and to close down solid blocks.
Why a bouldering contest?
The DC project as a whole, with its practice of refunctionalization in regards to sites, structures, and abandoned compounds in the Dolomiti-Unesco area, is exactly that: a cultural climb.
Brain tooling. Metaphotical fingers inside one’s mind, mixing and matching.
DC is, thus, a concrete idea. The goal is to go to the mountain, to climb it, observe it, enter it, to explore its most powerful resources, and to reactivate the dormant ones, which maintain their great value.
The Eni Village of Borca is one of these extraordinary sites.
Climbing it means showing off its streght.
Gellner’s architecture isn’t contemplated from below, as if it were a motionless Museum, anymore, since contemplating it doesn’t help its enhancement.
Instead, it’s climbed, and that way it is shown, touched, declared living, real.
There are people moving now, in these magical woods, which have become a jungle, blanketing Gellner’s colorful volumes, and even making its way inside them, and this crowd is finding its footing, in the walls and their history, in the present, and, just two leaps away, in the future.
Around forty Blocks will be traced, and a few climbing paths will be set up on easy walls.
A large internal hall with a moquette-like paving, will be used for the grounded sackline, while a few highlines will be stretched between the pavilions in the woods.
Photo: Giacomo De Donà
