Ideal Spaces News Update

Press release 1 – March 

Symposium on Housing, Guimaraes/Portugal, May 29-31, 2025

Together with Zegnea Group and the City Council of Guimaraes, Ideal Spaces  has set up the content of our symposium. 

Today, we face a widespread housing crisis on a worldwide scale, and it is about to inflict societal damage and disruption, also in Western societies. With this symposium, we want to address the problems surrounding housing and envision solutions to those. In addition to issues of architecture and urban planning, the underlying economic and political realities which dictate housing need a radical rethink. The present is not working at all. What our symposium tries to achieve are new ways of housing, elaborated by the different stakeholder groups relevant for housing and urban planning, such as private business, investors, architects, and government officials. To find these new ways, the critical success factors have to be defined for providing the necessary solutions.

Our symposium will last for three days, having as its goals the examination, analysis, and the creation of solutions in regards to developing a working plan that presents housing concepts that will allow the city of today and the future to be a viable space for human beings. An important factor of concern will be how to combine the private and public sectors in a positive manner for the community, society, and its cultural values. On the first day, we will deal with Recognizing the City, as a base for elaborating solutions. On the second day, we have to Re-interpret Housing and elaborate critical success factors for different stakeholders working together. On the third day, we will Re-imagine Space in the light of new public/private space dynamics and new housing typologies.   

You are invited to visit our discussion group in Facebook, Ideal Spaces Group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/820082393600717

Housing. La Defense, Paris. Photo U. Gehmann