Ideal Spaces News Update
A view to the foundation’s garden where the upcoming events will take place. Photo U. Gehmann
New Wednesday Series in Social Media
In the following weeks, we will bring an overview of our activities and the scope of Ideal Spaces. Posts on this will appear every Wednesday on our social media platforms in Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin. All these topics are united under the umbrella of Ideal spaces’ general theme, community and space. Space is not confined to architecture. Our aim is to establish over time a platform for true dialogue and exchange regarding these topics, to change the spaces we live in for a better way of life.
Workshop The Perspective shifts
We want to remind you of the event to be held at the Ideal Spaces venue in Nesslerstr. 16, 76227 Karlsruhe/Germany, September 13, 2025. With this event, we want to focus on the work of young artists from the region, offering them ways to present their understanding of the world, and of art. The event is about natural perspectives. Under the aegis of artist Desiree Kabis, narratives from the perspective of trees will be developed in different work groups, illustrated, and discussed. More information you find at our website, in upcoming events,https://www.idealspaces.org/upcoming-events/, as well as here: https://www.cityofmediaarts.de/en/events/the-perspective-shifts-non-human-perception-workshop/
Symposium Identity and Place, Place and Belonging: A Workshop on Citizenship, Space, and Community
We want also to remind on this important workshop in terms of place, citizenship, democracy and belonging today. In collaboration with Professor Jason Montgomery from the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C./USA who will be the main moderator, we will perform this event at our foundation’s venue Nesslerstr. 16, 76227 Karlsruhe/Germany. The event will be in person and online, it is an open forum concentrating on discussion. For further information, please contact Jason Montgomery, montgomeryja@cua.edu, or Ulrich Gehmann, ulrich.gehmann@idealspaces.org. The program you will find on our website, at “upcoming events”: https://www.idealspaces.org/event/identity-and-place-place-and-belonging-a-workshop-on-citizenship-space-and-community/. Here, you can also register.
Urban Eidos Journal
Our fifth issue on Artificial Natures is out, at https://urban-eidos.com/issues/issue-5-2025/. It includes Artificial Botany, presenting a new way of expressing nature with the help of artist-guided AI.
Podcasts
Our podcast with Pedro Guimaraes and Daniel Paiva from the University of Lisbon/Portugal is on our website, https://www.idealspaces.org/podcasts-and-interviews/. It will present facets of the digitalized city of today, together with its consequences. In our Youth-series, after the podcast with Lia Macedo starting the series, the next podcast will appear soon. It is with Anastasia Pawlik, an 18 year-old student giving her impressions about her peers. This podcast continues our start of the series with the younger generation reflecting itself. Our podcasts are on our website, at https://www.idealspaces.org/podcasts-and-interviews/