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Philosophizing always happens in a particular place embedded in a spatial context. In this view, a place is situated in a space which in turn is created by the particular place. In this context, the intercultural philosopher Ram Adhar Mall coined the notion »situated unsituatedness« (orthafte Ortlosigkeit) of philosophy and Bruce Janz formulated the approach of a »philosophy-in-place«. In his article in polylog 40, Elvis Imafidon too makes an issue of the connection between the platiality and universality of philosophy and locates the »inter« in-between them. My question is now: If philosophizing always happens in and from a particular place, where in the inter-space – in which place exactly – intercultural philosophizing takes place? And how does it take (its) place? In my article, I like to look in more detail at the relationship between place, space and the practice of intercultural philosophizing. I will finally consider the »inter« as an inter-spatial event-place in which mutual intercultural philosophizing takes (its) place. This inter-spatial event-place is to be understood neither as pre- nor as post-philosphical, but as emerging in the very moment in which the polylogue takes (its) place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]