From years of experiences in facilitating our community to face urgent issues of the time, concerning it, we realized something new is needed. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity, chances and risks of new technologies & digitization, health & food, equality - for all these the understanding of living systems and their interaction with our surroundings become more and more important.

Hence, our answer is to design a place that offers an interactive environment and supports creativity & collaboration for actively framing a sustainable future within a bio-based society. We upgraded our machBar-Potsdam (fabLab) in Oct. 2018 with open bio-lab facilities to cultivate organisms and grow own biological raw material, design bio-based ideas and build prototypes.