A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Over the last few months, we’ve been displaying a temporary exhibit encouraging visitors to ask questions about the upcoming referendum for the First Nations Voice to Parliament. As a museum focused on engaging 15-25 year olds, we wanted to create a space for caring inquiry. We wanted a place where our young visitors – who […]
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We kicked off our first Q series event of the year today, a quick-fire lunchtime talk with researchers. Each month we will get together and attempt to answer some of the (small) questions behind INVISIBILITY. Dr Sabrina Einecke from the University of Adelaide and Associate Professor Ady James from UniSA joined us to talk about light, […]
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We kicked off our first Q series event of the year today, a quick-fire lunchtime talk with researchers. Each month we will get together and attempt to answer some of the (small) questions behind INVISIBILITY. Stanley Feetham and Associate Professor Anne Souvertjis from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute of Marketing Science are behind the Surveillance Project exhibit. […]
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Did you know that birds aren’t real? Those feathery things you see flying about in the sky aren’t actually living creatures. They’re drones piloted by the US Government built to spy on us. I’m not serious, of course. It’s the biggest conspiracy theory to come out of Gen Z, spread to play on the misinformation […]
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When you create an exhibition set thirty years in the future, there are significant considerations when it comes to expressions of identity and diversity. We wanted to think about how society could change with regards to our understanding of gender and sexuality, and we also wanted to consider what disability might look like in the […]
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So we’ve spent some time thinking about the health care infrastructure holding up this future Australia, but there’s a lot more to consider. How will we get around in our vision of the future? And what sort of role has sustainability assumed when we are experiencing the very real and very serious impacts of climate […]
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SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE has returned after a brief hiatus. Last time I left you when we were considering building the world of Eucalara. We know that the future Australia will have a greater number of people from a greater number of places. But given we are currently experiencing the first global pandemic in […]
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We closed our doors at MOD. two weeks ago and we aren’t sure when they will open again. At the moment, we are hoping that it will be sometime in August, but who is to know? This doesn’t mean we have stopped working, although now we are all busy working from our respective homes. All […]
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I left you last time with the MOD. team having just returned from workshops in Finland. We had a huge task ahead of us — adapting a whole world and exhibition from Finland to Australia. Jukola and the siblings that live there didn’t look much like they’d fit in Australia 2050. As you can imagine, […]
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There are two exhibits at MOD. that have been making us feel a little differently to how they did before. Within SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE, one of the siblings – Julia – has the core value of safety. They’re worried. They’ve noticed invasive species and the environmental changes, so Julia is building a bushfire […]
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