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THE COLLAPSE LAB

August 24th - 30th 2025 

​for future humans

About the Laboratory

Why?

The purpose of the Barracks, of the Collapse Laboratory is to answer two questions:
  • Is there anything that we can do to limit the amount of time we spend in collapse?

  • What can we do to help the rebuilding project once humanity starts to emerge from collapse?

This will be the third running of the Lab, and we have learned much from the previous incarnations. 

Structured discussion groups, events and themed activities to direct the conversation into hopefully new and rewarding pathways have always been most successful here, and this year we will be building on that, with more structure, and more led workshopping. 

Our inspiration will be taken from the Seven Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Form, Colour, Space, Texture, Value.

And every evening, our amazing chef will present us with his interpretation of the day's artistic aspect on our plates as we eat together the fantastic food he creates for us from the food grown at the barracks, outside your window.

  • Up to six nights accommodation at the Barracks

  • Daily led discussion groups, creative activities and workshops

  • Two cooked vegan meals a day, plenty of snacks available all day

  • Use of the extensive library and free roaming of the Barracks

  • Optional Karma Yoga

  • Pigs!

How?

What?

Day 1 Line

direction, intent, consequence

Day 2 Shape

the importance of friendships

Day 3 Form

examining structure and society

Day 4 Colour

maintaining joy and play in collapse

Day 5 Space

personal and interpesronal relationships

Day 6 Texture

what we can feel with out senses

Day 7 Value

where do we want to be?

Conclusions

Full Programme

Coming soon ... 

Your Role

You have exchanged modern living for a week at The Barracks.

This in itself can be inspirational and even healing. 

 

You have chosen to join a makeshift community of like-minded journeyfolks who can see with clarity that collapse is coming - soon - and who have accepted it. 

 

We have separately been through the mental struggles that acceptance requires and in the decision to come and join in the collapse laboratory, we want to join with others to find ways to help with the rebuilding of society before we forget what the best of society can mean.

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Activities

All activities are optional, available to all guests, subject to weather and interest, but some of the things we do here include:

Yoga

Every morning - 6:00am

Some people will almost certainly be doing yoga from 6am. You can join in this semi-lead class, freeform it, or use our dedicated yoga room any time you wish

Activities

Constructive Exhange

Our directed activities and lead workshops draw from all parts of the creative space to try to create new pathways in the brain for imagining the impossible. 

Dining

Vegan Master Chef

Breakfast, pastries, snacks

Full lunch

Three course vegan fine dining every evening

Relax

Calming the mind

Free time sessions for taking a book from the library and hanging out in a hammock, walking, or table tennis

What is the Barracks?

The home of the happy doomer

Built: 1963

1963 - 1991: The Grenztruppen of the NVA

1995 - 2000: Home for assylum seekers

2004 - 2009: Private occupation

2019 - RIGHT NOW! - the Collapse Laboratory

Straddling the iron curtain, between East and West Europe

The Barracks is Europe‘s first and only organisation to provide exclusively a radically authentic space for the contemplation and consideration of climate catastrophe.

Upcoming Events

  • The Collapse Lab
    The Collapse Lab
    So., 24. Aug.
    Triebel
    24. Aug. 2025, 14:00 – 31. Aug. 2025, 15:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    24. Aug. 2025, 14:00 – 31. Aug. 2025, 15:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    The purpose of the Barracks, of the Collapse Laboratory is to attempt to answer two impossible questions: ​ Is there anything that we can do to limit the amount of time we spend in collapse? What can we do to help the rebuilding project once humanity starts to emerge from collapse?
  • Timber Frame Construction
    Timber Frame Construction
    Fr., 16. Mai
    Triebel
    16. Mai 2025, 13:00 – 18. Mai 2025, 17:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    16. Mai 2025, 13:00 – 18. Mai 2025, 17:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    Using traditional hand tools, many of them refurbished at the barracks by hand, we will learn the basics of timber frame construction.
  • Growing (for) Self Sufficiency
    Growing (for) Self Sufficiency
    Fr., 25. Apr.
    Triebel
    25. Apr. 2025, 19:00 – 28. Sept. 2025, 23:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    25. Apr. 2025, 19:00 – 28. Sept. 2025, 23:00
    Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
    For the first time, we are super excited to be offer a set of gardening workshops, specifically aimed at self sufficiency. This is the special price "All four seasons in one ticket" ticket
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Questions?

Answers and Requirements

If you have any questions about or special requirements for you booking, please let us know and we will do what we can to answer and accommodate.

Thank you!

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