Homemade Summercamp Girlen 2026
Our Homemade Summercamp just started in Girlen. We are staying in the beautiful mountains of Toggenburg.
We are meeting for Week of open-ended research, sharing ideas and skills, and fostering a sense of community in a relaxed, collaborative environment. There will be a dense programm with workshops, talks and experiments.
On August 2nd we will go back to uur Hackerspace in Zürich for a public closing event with performnces, exhebition and workshops.
https://wiki.sgmk-ssam.ch/wiki/HOME_MADE_2026
Collaborations & Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all participants joining Homemade!! Only with all of you this experience can be as magic is it has been… For cleaning the kitchen, support shuttling everybody up and down, sharing your skills, materials, and love. And supporting with your participation fee, more other artists, hackers and geeks to be able to travel and join our event.
Support
Homemade 2026 – Girlen II is partially supported through the “Technobiological Futures” programme (February 2026 — August 2027), a multi-phase initiative spanning Thailand, Switzerland, Indonesia, and India. Co-funded by “Synergies”, by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Co-Laboratories catalyse South-South collaborations that bypass traditional North-mediated routes, building sustainable networks for art-science-technology exchange across the Global South. Connecting the Global Hackteria Network, SGMK (Swiss Mechatronic Art Society), Tomorrow.lab. Embracing a Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) approach to collective experimentation accross diverse perspectives.
