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
SOCIAL CONTRACT 4.0, MADELINE GANNON
2pm–9pm – an interactive robotic installation by the artist Madeline Gannon
The robots that build our world do exactly what they are told, when they are told, where they are told. But that relationship is ending: physical AI is giving our machines the intelligence to explore our world for themselves. What should they do with their newfound curiosity? This installation explores a new social contract with autonomous, intelligent systems (4.0) — one built on convincing, not controlling, machines. As you approach, the machine may choose to interact with you, or it may be too busy having fun on its own. It gets to decide. This work asks what it means to share a world with technology whose trust we may need to earn first.
ABOUT MADELINE GANNON
Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer blending techniques in art, design, computer science, and robotics to forge new futures for human-robot relations. Also known as “The Robot Whisperer”, Gannon specializes in convincing robots to do things they were never intended to do: from transforming giant industrial robots into living, breathing mechanical creatures, to taming hordes of autonomous machines to behave like a pack of animals.
Gannon believes that technology is a cultural medium, and tunes her work to engage communities across science and society. Her works have been exhibited at international cultural institutions, published at academic conferences, and profiled at global media outlets, such as the BBC, the Guardian, FT , the Science Channel, WIRED, FastCompany, Dezeen, and The Verge.
