The intercultural dialogue in Bor should be, basically, fostered as the enabling and expanding of communication and respect for the others’ point of view. In this regard, The Public Library Bor is, according to its statute and its fundamental activity, really public institution, in which the base of communication is the intercultural dialogue, considering the multicultural tradition of its environment, which is of an invaluable significance for the town and the library, respectively. The Public Library in Bor, with its everyday activity, its collections, its public and cultural activities and the medias it possesses, constantly develops the intercultural dialogue.

The Department of the Local Collections, in the scope of the project of digitalization of the huge photo-documentation the library takes care of, has a plan which includes continuous acquisition of visual non-book material. Besides, this project aims at supporting preserving continuity of visual recording of the town’s appearance and the life in it. The idea for The Alternative Urbanization in Bor in the Eyes of the Other has resulted from this project: with adequate presentation it has potentials to foster intercultural dialogue and to pose questions about valorization of one’s own values and about missing critical views on the everyday life and to register objectified social imagination.

It aims at enabling the view of the other and the others on this specific topic; it would be helpful for the local environment, because it should be related with the alternatively urbanized areas, which for local people have, above all, special emotional, affective, intimate orientation, usually unnoticed, forgotten or habitualized. It is about, e.g., individual interventions in public spaces, objectified emotional attitudes toward the public, toward buildings, areas, paths, shortcuts, previously unplanned objects, some auxiliary objects like pigeon houses, sheds, garages …

The Alternative Urbanization in Bor in the Eyes of the Other , organized during 2009. continues in 2010. with print publication, BOROSANE.

Strategies and aims

– Managing the continuity in the visual recordings of the town’s appearance and the life in it.

– Fostering missing documentary, artistic, critical, evaluating views of the everyday and the public life from the point of view of people who have never been in Bor and who are the chosen experts for conceptual and contextual artistic practices.

– Promoting of unnoticed, hardly observable urban values of the town and the objectifications of cultural and social realties in everyday Bor.

– Organizing the intercultural dialogue on the local level as the most important and the most constructive way of action and interaction.

The artists worked and documented their work in visual medias, photography, video. The library enabled support for their work, and hospitality, so as the publishing, editing, et cetera. The authors were obliged to give their works to the library for permanent use and presentation. The idea was that the way of presentation should be unlimited, having in minde possibilities for newer and newer contextualisation; it could be performed anywhere, in the library’s gallery or in public space, and in agreement with the authors. Firstly, the presentation could be collective: all the works will be exhibited in the same time, regardless of the place of the exhibition. BOROSANE is the first collectiv “exhibition” of the works of all of participants. Secondly, there could be succession of individual exhibitions, concluded with the presentation of the documentation of the process of working. The intercultural dialogue will be fostered in real time, in the course of the happening, during presentations/exhibitions, and, also, permanently according to possibilities of available digital medias the library disposes of. The library possesses all the equipment necessary for the digitalization of cultural and public activities, photo and video materials; so as modest capacities for exhibiting but excellent organization of presentation of its activities and very good cooperation with medias and the public.