Creators Lab

To provide our members with the right tools and resources for creative exploration, we’ve built the Creators Lab in Factory Berlin Görlitzer Park. Designed as a multi-purpose environment to be used by our community and extended network, the Creators Lab hosts an artist residency, music studio, tech testing center, meditation room, kitchen and sports area. It’s a comfortable environment for multiple disciplines to meet and flourish together, to make collaboration easy and cutting-edge ideas more accessible.

Opening hours: 8 am - 9 pm on weekdays.

Spaces (Map)

Main Hall

The large open area includes standing tables, sitting tables, folding tables, hanging tables and lounge areas for all types of working or meeting. There’s always light music and conversations around, so don’t be shy about meeting here or making some noise (or bringing your noise-cancelling headphones). 

Meditation Room

This room is perfect for getting some silence and meditating alone or in a group. If you’re interested in using the room for a special meeting or workshop, please write to Caleb ([e-mail]) to see if it can be arranged. 

Community Kitchen

The community kitchen is like any other in the campuses with coffee, tea, sparkling water and more. This kitchen also includes stove tops so there is the potential to run cooking classes/events sometime in the future. We’re not quite ready yet, but if you have ideas, feel free to write already!

Music Studio (NOTE: Currently unavailable until further notice for health & safety reasons)

Music Studio Access

To access the Music Studio, community members are required to first book a 30min “Music Studio Onboarding” session with a Factory Berlin staff member where you will be asked to demonstrate a minimum skill level in usage of equipment to avoid miss use of equipment. Please see the Terms & Conditions for usage of the Music Studio.

Please fill out this form to be able to book your Music Studio Onboarding.

Once having completed the Music Studio Onboarding, you will be given a link to book sessions in the music lab. One session consists of 2 hours and a maximum of 3 sessions can be booked per week.

The Studio is bookable for sessions between 10 am and 8 pm, Monday to Friday.

For any questions on the Studio, please reach out to Oscar at [e-mail].

Equipment

The music studio contains a variety of equipment listed below is the technical set up:

• Studio PC
• Maschine Controller
• Komplete Kontrol 88
• RME Fireface 802
• Microphone Stands
• Headphones (Beats by Dre)
• Cubase (Software)
• Nuendo (Software)
• Waveslab (Software)
• Vochlea (Software)
• Output (Software)
• Native Instruments Komplete 12 (Software)
• Bitwig (Software)
• 2x Denon SC5000 Prime (DJ Decks)
• Denon X1850 (DJ Mixer)

Extra bookable equipment:

• Apogee Hype Mic (Podcast recording microphone)
• External recording Unit with SD Card
• XLR & Instrument Cables for Audio Recording

Residency Area

The studio space just outside the Music Studios is the home for our Artists in Residence. This area is primarily their working space and not available for members to work in, but you’re of course welcome to have a peak, read up on their profiles/projects, and hit them up on Slack! (Artist profiles included at the bottom of this article)Photo

Photo Shooting Area (NOTE: Currently unavailable until further notice for health & safety reasons)
Photography equipment is now available for members to use in the Creators Lab. The area includes a 3-point lighting system and three different backgrounds to shoot against.
Please note that the area is not enclosed and is not completely silent or acoustically treated and is therefore not suitable for filming with sound.
No booking necessary, just come by and make yourself at home.

Equipment (NOTE: Currently unavailable until further notice for health & safety reasons)

Of course we have equipment for you to use within the Lab space, just make sure you return it after you’re finished. If there’s anything you need that you don’t see here, please suggest it!

• 32” Samsung UHD Monitors (2) 
• Samsung Digital Flipchart
• Product Shooting Tent
• 3-point lighting system
• Screw drivers
• Wrenches
• Scissors 
• Metal saw
• Hammer
• Vice 
• Sodding Iron
• Voltage Tester
• Glue 
• Tape

We also offer overnight lockers that can be allocated to members based on a few criteria. You can apply for one here.

Please note that the overnight lockers are only accessible during the opening hours of the Creators Lab (Monday - Friday, 8 am - 9 pm).

Programs

We run a number of single events in the lab, including workshops, vernissages, and panel discussions. Stay up to date with our weekly community events newsletter or check out the TV screen to the right when you walk into the Lab.

If you’re interested in organising your own workshop or event in the Lab, please fill out this form.

Wellness & Fitness Classes

You can find more information about our Wellness & Fitness program here.

We run HIIT training classes with Beat81 in the main hall every weekday morning and evening (except Thursday nights) at the following times: 8:00, 9:00, 18:30, 19:30.

Yoga classes also happen each Tuesday evening at 18:00 in the main hall.

Meditation classes happen at the following times in the meditation room: 

• 15-minute group meditation - Thursdays @ 12:00 with Caleb (@Caleb Screpnek)
• Guided Meditation- every other Wednesday @ 12:00 with Aline (@Aline)

If you’re interested in organising your own fitness class in the Lab, please fill out this form.