A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
MOD. will be a museum for everyone. However, core to the MOD. vision is to create a space, at the intersection of art, science and innovation, for young adults aged 15–25 to be, and be inspired. With this in mind it was important to our whole team that we not only build a museum that achieves this […]
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When you are designing a place to be inspiring for young adults, how do you know it is going to actually be just that….inspiring? It is a big call — what inspires one young person might not inspire the next. Our biggest fear is that MOD. will be, well…uncool. So we decided we needed informed, young leaders […]
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“Why on earth would you call yourselves a museum?” We’ve had this question. In fact we’ve had it multiple times. We call ourselves MOD. We also often talk about ourselves as a museum of discovery. Our goal is to become Australia’s leading future-focused museum, provoking new ideas at the intersection of art, science and innovation. You’ll […]
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On the 23rd of January, 2017, our team gathered for the first time in what we have now called the MOD. POD. The four of us (Leanne, Daniel, Simon and I) had never met before but had been brought together on that day by MOD. Director, Dr Kristin Alford. Our room, the ‘pod’, was a […]
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