Museum Night of Lausanne-Pully at EPFL

Saturday 22 September 2018
from 2 pm to 2 am

Exhibitions, guided tours, animations and musical performances will make the EPFL campus lively during the Night of the Museums of Lausanne-Pully : star and planet gazing with the telescopes of Callista, the EPFL astronomy club, photographic exhibitions in the ArtLab building, concerts from 3 pm to 9 pm at the Rolex Forum, exhibition and animation around architecture models in the SG building, showings of old computers and space dedicated to video games from the 70s and 80s at the Bolo Museum



ROLEX LEARNING CENTER:

  • At 3 pm and at 9 pm at the Forum
    Concert “Le noir de l’étoile” (The black of the star) from GĂ©rard Grisey by We Spoke
    This work, of which the tempo is captured live through the pulsar of a star, is a narration of encounter, at a precise hour and in real time, between a dying star which emits its last signals, a gigantic radiotelescope which listens to it and six musicians which it guides.

  • From 2 pm to 2 pm (continuously) next to the building’s lakesid
    Star and planet observation
    Callista, the astronomy club of EPFL, will guide visitors in the day observation of our Sun and during the night, the observation of the most imposing planet of our solar system : Jupiter.


ARTLAB:

  • From 2 pm to 2 am (continuously)
    Prix Pictet – Space
    Exhibition of the shots realized by the twelve finalist photographers of the seventh edition of the Pictet Prize, First international photography prize dedicated to sustainable development.

  • Listening apparati of the Montreux Jazz Festival archives
  • Exhibition on the EPFL projects “Blue Brain Project” & “Venice Time Machine”

ARCHIZOOM & SG BUILDING:

  • From 2 pm to 2 am (continuously)
    Exhibition “Isle of Models”
    The Archizoom space presents an archipelago of isles in suspension in which scale models realized by the architecture workshops of EPFL are put in perspective with texts from the anthology “Questions d’échelle” (Questions of scale) (Nadja Maillard, Actes Sud, 2018). The model, with its cardboard walls, its cut out characters, its Styrofoam trees, can control a world and give shape to ideas. The literary text opens to other imaginaries. Thus one and the other put our reveries into a mise en abyme.

  • Virtual immersion in one scale model
    thanks to virtual reality glasses
  • Projection of the documentary “Powers of Ten”,
    realized in 1977 by designers Charles and Ray Eames
  • Workshop “Se rencontrer en construisant” (To meet by building) simultaneous with the Mudac
    Take part in the fabrication of a collective living space, cosy and welcoming, by participating in the workshop “Se rencontrer en construisant”, organized under the conduct of young builders and simultaneously with the Mudac.


MUSÉE BOLO – INF BUILDING: