A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Leaders, designers, and communicators from science centres in the Asia-Pacific Region gathered in Seoul, South Korea, in early September to share practices and exchange ideas. I was fortunate to be awarded an ASPAC Fellowship to attend so we could share some of our work on futures-oriented museums and how science centres might think about the […]
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When speculative fiction becomes real - how Trigger Warning sparks conversation about the internet, information fragmentation and peace.
The World Wide Web. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. Open up the news on your phone, and what do you see? Everything seems to be escalating conflict, the horrors of the world. Well, you’re not the only one who has noticed how much our media focuses on the increasing violence of our world today. What happens when […]
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Arts leaders from Adelaide and Korea discuss transforming art and technology.
Case studies from MOD. and other South Australian organisations were centre stage at ‘Art + Technology Interface: Translating, Transforming and Transitioning’ on 24-25 February. The University of South Australia and the Korean Association of Arts Management, drew together arts leaders from Adelaide and Korea. As well as us, leaders from South Australia included: Illuminate Adelaide Patch Theatre […]
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Conscious Cities Festival 2021 in Adelaide/Tarntanya
The Adelaide/Tarntanya Conscious Cities Festival is underway with a week’s work of talks focused on the person-space continuum. Conscious Cities 2021 is led by Trish Hansen of Urban Mind Studio and Alex Bruhn and Michelle Howie and their colleagues from Global Shapers Adelaide Hub, a network of young professionals. To put the Festival into context […]
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Celebrating our second birthday by reflecting on a year of uninhibited exploration
MOD. turns 2 this week. We are still learning. And while in regular times we might celebrate this milestone with a gathering of community, this year we’re keeping it small by looking at the world through the eyes of a toddler in a year of uninhibited exploration. A year of uninhibited exploration “It is a […]
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Looking for inspiring and interactive things to do in Adelaide? Visit MOD.
People looking for inspiring and interactive things to do in Adelaide visit MOD. We’ve now had 110,000 visits since we opened last year. What do we know about our visitors? From the visitor surveys: 37% of our visitors are aged between 15-25. 56% are female 6% identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Almost 20% […]
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Did you know there are almost 7,500 people under the age of 25 who lives in the City of Adelaide? Or that there are more than 95,000 annual visits by young people to the Art Gallery of South Australia and the South Australian Museum a year? What do young people want from their city? In […]
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In the midst of the informational chaos of an Australian election, Brexit and the US primaries, how do we weigh the damage that social media has done to democracy? Is there a way in which the algorithms that optimise the technology towards misinformation and division might instead be directed to sustain peace? MOD. commissioned Superflux […]
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Today is the International Day of Peace, a day the United Nations devotes to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. Peace is something we’ve been thinking about a lot at MOD. over the last few months as we prepare for an exhibition opening in November 2018 on the theme […]
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Late last year I was frustrated. I knew what we were trying to create and I could describe it if I talked around it. But I wanted to articulate our essence in a way that would resonate quickly with a broad audience. Finally we* worked it out. A place to be and be inspired. That’s […]
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