NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS
Saturday 26 September 2026
The Museum Night will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. For this special edition, the museums are pulling out all the stops and transforming the city into one huge party: exhibitions, performances, talks, surprises and unique experiences will punctuate the day and evening, from 2 pm until midnight. At Archizoom, we’re offering an immersive experience surrounded by robotic arms and construction sites with the exhibition Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?, as well as bespoke guided tours and an interactive art installation where you can interact directly with the robots.
More information on the Night of Museums 2026
ARCHIZOOM PROGRAM
EXHIBITIONS OPEN
2pm-midnight – Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
+ Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l’école d’architecture
What if robots didn’t replace us, but worked alongside us? Robots are capable of assembling, analysing, experimenting and learning from their mistakes. Could they take on construction work without replacing human labour? Research carried out by the CRCL – Lab for Creative Computation at EPFL explores a form of collaboration between humans and machines that departs from the traditional promise of automation.
GUIDED TOURS
3pm / 6pm / 9pm – Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
in French
Can we trust a robot on a building site? This guided tour explores what it means to build alongside increasingly capable machines, and how collaboration between humans and robots could affect our buildings, our trades and, by extension, our daily lives
FRIENDLY FIRE, AATB
2pm–9pm – an interactive robotic installation by AATB, Practice for Non-Industrial Robotics
A Machine that can see.
A Machine that can think.
A Machine that can do.
We endow machines with sight, they scrutinize us. We bestow upon them cognition, they ponder our existence. We furnish them with hands, what actions will they take toward us?
“Friendly Fire” explores how state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and robotics are rapidly converging, propelling us into uncharted realms. Here, machines, robots, and pseudo-intelligent contraptions acquire a newfound sense of agency, influencing and interacting with their surroundings.
A robotic Cyclop, equipped with a monocular camera and bolstered by a robust neural processing system, is endowed with the ability to observe and engage with people unpredictably. The inner mechanisms of its decision-making processes are hard to grasp. Is it acting out of self-defense, aggression, or perhaps mere amusement? In its enigmatic behavior, it may be on the cusp of learning what it means to be human.
ABOUT AATB
AATB – Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet – is an artist duo investigating human-machine interactions through robotics and industrial automation beyond factory settings. Their practice integrates software programming, electronics, mechanical engineering, and precision machining to critically explore how robotics enters everyday life.
Their work has been exhibited at ZKM (Karlsruhe), V&A Dundee, Ars Electronica (Linz), Chengdu Biennale, New Museum (New York), Venice Architecture Biennale, Zollverein (Essen), Unfold X (Seoul), APS Museum (Shanghai), HEK (Basel), Istanbul Design Biennial, Milan Design Week, and Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich). They have held residencies at CERN and Atelier Luma (Arles) and received the Swiss Design Award in 2021. AATB has taught at most Swiss art and design universities (ZHDK, ECAL, HEAD, FHNW, HKB, SUPSI) and internationally.
