Who We Are

Ideal Spaces is an internationally active charitable foundation based in Germany. A main focus has always been the relationship between space, place, and community, with the desire of developing concepts that will better shape contemporary living spaces for today and for the future. We address and assist architectural creations to foster communal life. This is not only a question of architecture, but also of social space. We focus on community and space and the underlying concepts with their assumptions: from utopian constructs to the reality of everyday life, and their effects on community, the individual, the Self, and the outer world. Ideal Spaces wants to bring to life the assumptions underlying these constructions, their roots in collective consciousness and cultural memory, and what this means today and for the future. Related questions that must be dealt with are collective consciousness/identity, the human condition, democratic citizenship, and intergenerational dialogue. Dealing with the above topics is important to understand the potential for social disruption. For this, we seek solutions by dialogue and communication.

All these topics making a social space are reflected in architecture, as the built space we live in. Most of modern architecture that makes up the real world we live in neglects one essential human need: to live in communities. This must be changed. Communities need places and not just spaces for mere human existence, but real places of identity, distinctiveness, and belonging. This could prevent social disruption. The Ideal Spaces Foundation aims to help make this change.

On these topics, we make international symposia/workshops, podcasts, and exhibitions. By this, we have already created a forum relative to these topics. The aim now is to build a defined forum that will function on an ongoing basis, acting as an interface between Ideal Spaces, our audience, professionals, decision makers, and the general public to achieve a transparent, non-biased dialogue on key subjects affecting community/space in everyday life.We follow a humanist approach, it is outlined in our Manifesto, https://www.idealspaces.org/manifesto/