Archipelago Tour of Summercamps 2025
We are happy to announce a special collaboration for this year to combine our beloved HOME MADE summercamp with our friends from Bretagne, who have been hosting the Artlabo Retreat, “a week of creating in and with nature” on the Île de Batz, off the Roscoff coast (Bretagne, FR) for the last years.
Through the project “Archipelago: Art and Science Investigations in Times of Unstable Knowledge”, which received support from Pro Helvetia Synergies Programme, we are now preparing for more intense research activities and support of participation of international guests to combine our two summercamps. This joint programme is a collaboration of SGMK – Swiss Mechatronic Art Society and our main partner the Roscosmoe platform by Art2M / Makery, aswell various other local and international partners.

As 2025 also marks the 20 years anniversary of HOME MADE, this is a great opportunity to bring together more new and old friends to join our summer activities, share and celebrate with us the do-it-yourself (DIY) & do-it-with-others (DIWO) culture in France and Switzerland.
Preview of Programme
June 29 – July 14: ArtLabo Retreat 2025 – Bretagne, France
This time the ArtLabo Retreat has 2 Chapters, a first week on the Île de Batz, co-organized with design gallery & makerspace La Gare Ultra, with more of a marine focus, sound art, biomaterials and collaboration with a local art school, and a second week inland at Château de Kerminy in Rosporden, co-organized with the art farm Kerminy.org, with a focus on soil, sound and food sovereignty, while reflecting and documentating the experiences.
More info about ArtLabo Retreat 2025 will be released on the Roscosmoe website.

The ArtLabo Retreat is a bi-annual week-long international gathering. It takes place at the Island of Batz, off the Roscoff coast (Bretagne, FR). Its focus is on sharing research-creation practices in the field of marine biology, biomaterials, sustainable food, upcycling & circular economy, open source technology, video & sound arts and media publication.
1 – 10 August: HOME MADE 2025 – Wartburg, Salenstein (TG), Switzerland
For the first time with HOME MADE 2025 we go to the lake! We found a nice location on the banks of Untersee, near Salenstein (TG), and already have reserved the Wartburg for us to spend a week of geeking and celebrating, soldering and swimming.
More info about HOME MADE 2025 will be constantly updated on this wiki page: https://wiki.sgmk-ssam.ch/wiki/HOME_MADE_2025

The Homemade summercamp is a week that is open for beginners as well as experts and everyone in between interested in exploring ideas or creating objects for sound, light or movement. The participants can bring their individual projects or work in groups and get inspired by art related topics. During this self-organized research week we will do workshops and talks, run experiments, cook & eat together, there will also be time for party and relaxing.

Documentations of earlier HOME MADE Summercamps
How to Participate
More info coming soon…
More Networks of Summercamps
Furthermore we are also proud to have joined the larger Feral Labs Network and hopefully can share and learn more from each other.

“The Feral Labs Network is a network of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities. It’s members share a common interest in art-science research and contemporary do-it-yourself (DIY) & do-it-with-others (DIWO) communities.“
See more about all those friends on the website: https://ferallabs.net/
And check their nice publications available on their website.
Articles and reflections on earlier camps
Feral Circuits: Rewilding electro-cultures at HomeMade 2024, Published 12 October 2024 by Miranda Moss, Makery
