History
Collab was founded in 2009 by Marc and Adina Levin. The experimental idea was to create a physical ecosystem that would give innovators and creative entrepreneurs the tools, equipment, and space to concretize their ideas without the limitations caused by lack of access to prototyping and digital fabrication equipment. We believed that by sharing resources within a curated community, a brain trust would naturally develop. Individual endeavors would be built. Collectively, near unlimited opportunities to build larger projects would become possible. We recently expanded to a much larger space in Brooklyn and we are looking forward to growing our programs and community.
Specialties
Collab has been created to provide space, technology, and manufacturing equipment for Artists, Architects, Fabricators, Engineers, Painters, Graphic Designers, Entrepreneurs, Environmental Earth Scientists, Musicians, Photographers, and others from a diversity of interdisciplinary pursuits to work on their ideas while collectively developing socially and environmentally conscious prototypes and solutions for this new era. Collab is a combination think tank and fabrication laboratory, providing members with the tools to work on their ideas, and an open source platform, if they choose, for expanding and exchanging those ideas with other members and the populace. Not a traditional co-working space, the belief is that by juxtaposing, for example, the work of a neuroscientist with an architect in an environment of tools, machinery, and technology, a heightened and expansive creativity will be stimulated. In creating this network and encouraging an exploratory aesthetic, the possibilities for innovation that may sustain our ecosystem, economy, and imagination become almost limitless.