A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Written by Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman
A few years ago, we started to think about the problems of communicating with sentient beings beyond our planet. Since the earliest days of the Space Age, scientists have tried to send messages to other beings using spacecraft and radio signals. They’ve used telescopes to look for possible signs of planetary engineering, and listened for […]
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A four-part podcast series by UniSA final year journalism students.
What happens when you bring together one of Australia’s newest and most innovative public museums, MOD. with a trio of final year journalism students? MOD.cast – a four-part podcast series that asks some of the big and controversial questions young people want to understand. The series explores reality in a virtual world, the blur between […]
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Tomorrow (Saturday 10 February) marks three months until we launch MOD.
For the last 12 and a bit months, we have thinking about a space that is largely unknown and mostly unseen. While we have had floor plans, dimensions, ceiling grids and approximate locations, we have been limited, since January last year, to a once-monthly visit inside at best. I reckon I’ve spent a total of […]
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2017 has been a huge year for MOD.
Our team has grown from one person (Kristin) to nine. We’ve produced an anthology and an art exhibition in collaboration with SA Museum and UniSA’s wonderful communication design students. We’ve run robot and design workshops with young people and have welcomed our first Youth Advisory Board. We’ve met so many new people — makers, artists, technologists, researchers, creators and young adults who have helped us along the […]
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“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings”. (Quiller-Crouch, 1914) Just like any good writer, we’ve been killing our darlings as we’ve developed the narrative, and the content, for our first exhibition MOD.IFY. This has been a necessary part […]
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A special guest post from MOD.YAB member, Eleanor Brown
A few months ago I was asked to join the MOD. YAB. Which is the Youth Advisory Board for MOD. (You can check it out here!) Being a part of the YAB has already taught me a lot, including how much learning and school has changed. Eleanor Browne […]
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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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