HOME MADE 2025

2th - 10th August 2025, at ¡ǝʇɐᗡ ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐS

About

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.

See an Overview of 20 Years of Homemade

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).

Home Made is a summer camp centered on open-ended research, sharing ideas and skills, and fostering a sense of community in a relaxed, collaborative environment. Organized by the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, the event emphasizes DIWO (Do It With Others), especially in experimental electronics projects used in sound, light, kinetic art, and music. However, the camp celebrates a diverse array of practices, including Bio-art, Ceramics, Mushroom and wild herb foraging, Hiking, Crystal growing, Hobby horse dressage, Microscopy, Textile art, Fermentation, Metal and woodwork, Model airplane construction and flying, Videography, Comic art, and writing.

The philosophy of the camp is that everyone has something valuable to share and something new to learn, regardless of their background. It’s a space for curiosity, creativity, and connecting with others who love making things. This year’s edition is extra special, as it is the 20th Anniversary of Home Made! We have also secured a larger house than usual (so feel free to share with friends who would be interested to join!), which is also situated on the bodensee – so lots of swimming and water geeking opportunities. Visit and edit our wiki for continous updates on the programme, participants, projects and dreams.

There will also be the collaboration with our friends from Bretagne, who will be hosting the Artlabo Retreat, “a week of creating in and with nature”.

Date

2th August-10th August 2025

Venue

Wartburg

Loisenbergstrasse 20, 8268 Mannenbach-Salenstein

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. The location consists of houses, the big one with outdoor terasse and professional kitchen and dining rooms, and many many small rooms for sleeping with 2-4 beds each. The second place "Waldhaus" a few steps down can serve as additional working spaces, music rooms, outdoor barbeque and laboratory.

Finally, we also have a small "private" spot down by the lake for water experimentations and cooling down in the lake, including a port to land your boat!

Fee

fee for the whole week

SGMK Members CHF 295.-

non SGMK Members CHF 345.-

daily fee 50.-

the fee includes food, accommodation and basic material.

Registration

mail to homemade@sgmk-ssam.ch

Programm

Workshop Programm

Kitchen Lab

Participants

HOME MADE 2024 Participants

Documentation

See the video of the HomeMade 2024 week by krautmovies:

https://makertube.net/videos/embed/cb772913-4246-4817-9568-c08a9519aaf1

Links

Mehr zu vergangenen Editionen in unserem Archive HOME MADE