Yay… two new partnerships!

As part of our strategic orientation as a Makers Retreat, we are delighted to welcome two particularly valuable new cooperation partners in the field of COCOLAB workshops.

BrALI Team Retreats & Offsites and our open workshop will be working together in future on strategy and team-building offers. We have known each other for years and this can only be fantastic… great that you are part of it!!!

SolarPunkNow are makers themselves and among other things, develop sustainable work materials. At the Fläminger Kreativsause this summer, we got to know each other in the workshop ‘NOWtopia – We are building the village of the future’ and are looking forward to offering rapid prototyping and sustainability strategy development workshops for our guests from now on.

Rabbit Indie Games Residency 2024

From October 31 to November 28, our international computer game developer residency will once again take place in Klein Glien. Around 500 independent developers (93 teams) applied for the only 15 places. So the competition was tough and we are proud to welcome six great teams from South Africa, Chile, Nigeria and Germany.

We are looking forward to endless coding nights, nerdy conversations and hopefully a few analog game creations from the COCOLAB.

Many thanks to Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg for making this possible.

>Simple Things< The book

In a university cooperation between COCOLAB. and the Design faculty at the FH Potsdam under the direction of Prof. Jörg Hundertpfund, 15 students designed simple things in a design seminar. The aim was to create a design that was simple to produce. Developing simple, functional things is anything but easy as design errors cannot be hidden behind creative frills. The great advantage of relatively uncomplex things is that they can be easily produced in the COCOLAB, e.g. as an advertising medium or workshop result.

You can borrow a beautifully designed printed version of the results from our workshop and browse through them over a cup of coffee and home-baked cake in the Café Apfel, which is located door to door, and get inspired for your own maker projects.

Start up space available in COCOLAB. – Join a great creative community

Next to our residents Rockfarm, Cookin´roll, Halina Hildebrand Photography and Jofila we have space for one more resident company. In addition to all Coconat comfort and space, there’s technical support, machine use in the open workshop as well as storage and testing rooms. Become part of our vibrant community!

Compost heating plant

In a participatory workshop, together with many great partners we built a heating system made out of a 120 m3 of locally sourced wood chips. During the composting process the wood will be transformed into valuble compost and heat for our COCOLAB.

The project is made possible by funding from the Sustainable Development Action – Local Agenda 21.