Newsletter 1, 2025

Ideal Spaces Foundation and the Ideal Spaces Working Group wishes you a healthy, happy, and successful 2025!

Ideal Spaces will be working together with the UNESCO Cities of Media Arts Karlsruhe/Germany and Modena/Italy in the CULT exchange project, to develop art concepts for concepts of citizenship and democracy, European core concepts. It will take place in April and May.

From May 29-31, we will hold a symposium on housing and public space in the UNESCO City of Guimaraes, Portugal, together with the City Council of Guimaraes and Zegnea Group. The issue of housing is at a crossroads between the ability to create a really human space for living and the inability to solve the problem of the economics of the private and public sector.

In 2025, we will continue our successful series of podcasts. Our next podcast will be with Khalid Kadir, Berkeley University/USA, about the minimization of the Self in recent capitalism. Following this, our podcasts will be on the effect of art on society today. All our podcasts are available on Youtube, Spotify, Apple +, Castbox, Amazon Music/Podcasts

In the beginning of 2025, Ideal Spaces will be creating a blog which will allow our international audience the ability to have direct communication and dialogue on issues that are the basis of Ideal Spaces. More information will be coming soon.

Presently, we have a discussion interface on Facebook, Ideal Spaces Group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/820082393600717. We are happy to invite you to participate. You will find updates of Ideal Spaces in Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, X, Bluesky.

Ideal Spaces is planning at the end of the first quarter 2025 a German language website.

From our Ideal Spaces book collection, we have 2 new books that will be available for sale, in German and English; Virtual Worlds as Gardens, and Pearls. Ideal Spaces will announce soon a new website for the sales of Ideal Spaces products, including the books.

The next issue of our journal Urban Eidos will appear in February, dealing with Self, Space, Society. In 2024, we had 400.000 plus downloads. All editions can be found on our website, https://urban-eidos.com/