About the Laboratory
Why?
The purpose of the Barracks, of the Collapse Laboratory is to answer two questions:
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Is there anything that we can do to limit the amount of time we spend in collapse?
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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.
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Up to six nights accommodation at the Barracks
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Daily led discussion groups, creative activities and workshops
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Two cooked vegan meals a day, plenty of snacks available all day
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Use of the extensive library and free roaming of the Barracks
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Optional Karma Yoga
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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.
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
- So., 24. Aug.Triebel24. Aug. 2025, 14:00 – 31. Aug. 2025, 15:00Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany24. Aug. 2025, 14:00 – 31. Aug. 2025, 15:00Triebel, 08 Triebel, GermanyThe 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?
- Fr., 16. MaiTriebel16. Mai 2025, 13:00 – 18. Mai 2025, 17:00Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
- Fr., 25. Apr.Triebel25. Apr. 2025, 19:00 – 28. Sept. 2025, 23:00Triebel, 08 Triebel, Germany
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.
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