A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Final application deadline for the 2025 MOD. Youth Board has been extended by one week. Apply now before 5pm Sunday 2 March. We’re looking for people to join a MOD. Youth Board. It’s a program for young people who are interested in testing, prototyping, and co-designing concepts, exhibitions, events, and experiences. Who you are: You […]
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Our Youth Board has just wrapped up its third year and we’d like to share the experiences from our members. This group of young people have different interests, some are at school, some at uni, and some are working. All of them are excited about science, art, and helping to create experiences for young people […]
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We’ve been running the Future Themes Forum at MOD. since 2019 as a way to find exhibition themes that are relevant and resonate with our audience. Earlier this year we published a paper, to share this method of participatory exhibition development with the museum community (which you can read online here). Over the last few […]
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Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and sustainable futures. Edited by Director of MOD. Dr Kristin Alford, the book presents 21 examples that demonstrate how museums are cultivating […]
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Ethos: the ethics of health and safety in the workplace
How do we know if we are thriving or merely surviving at work? Ethos hosted its final event for 2024 by exploring the ethics of health and safety in the workplace. Ethos Community of Practice aims to foster a culture of ethical questioning amongst researchers and the public. Led by ARC Laureate Professor Maureen Dollard, […]
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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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Field Trip to Yundi: A Journey of Nature, Culture, and Connection This October, MOD. hosted a Nature Festival event alongside John Fargher and Mark Koolmatrie at Yundi Nature Conservancy. A group consisting of children and grandparents, locals, visitors and newly arrived residents, professors and students, vegetation experts and complete beginners joined us for the fieldtrip. Together […]
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Jake Dunagan is an experiential futurist, political system designer, and teacher. He is director of the Governance Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a non-profit education and research organisation based in California, and teaches foresight in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at UT-Austin. He joined us in June-July as our […]
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Work experience placements at MOD. give high school students an introduction to workplaces, ideally in their areas of interest. These opportunities allow students to research directions for their futures, and connect them with diverse domains, organisations, and people. This year, we were happy to welcome eight year 10 and 11 students to MOD., and share […]
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On January 16, 2024, MOD. opened a new kind of polling agency. Instead of gauging the political opinion of humans, the agency sought to evaluate the attitude of trees. Under the guidance of experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats, the agency evaluates changes in stress level by monitoring changes in canopy cover. (Under greater stress, […]
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