A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
In this episode of MOD.Cast we’re meeting Rowan. Rowan is a self-taught bio hacker. They have already created a bio-implant that helps to monitor their anxiety, and their new creation is the world’s first completely synthetic and emission-free hamburger. Rowan is ready to take their burger to the world, but will we see lab grown […]
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In this episode of MOD.Cast we’re meeting Mia. Mia has recently lost their job as a barista to a robot, so they have taken up a barber apprenticeship, but there is still a lot of robot competition. Deep down, all Mia wants to do is to start an heirloom café with their partner, Naomi, both […]
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In this episode of MOD.Cast we’re getting entrepreneurial with Luca. Convinced that great-grandma’s land could be a perfect chance for development, Luca has founded Eucalara Bay. It’s a tranquil and beautiful place that could make everyone’s dreams come true. Sarah Martin takes us on a journey to better understand the future of Australian cities and […]
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In this episode of MOD.Cast we’re hopping on board the hypertrain with Kai. Kai is heartbroken again. The siblings sign them up for In Hyperlove With You, the hypertrain’s dating show, to see if they can meet meet someone special. Anna Day takes us on a journey to better understand the future of Australian transport […]
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We’re heading out bush in this episode to Julia’s bushfire refuge. For some time Julia has been noticing the environmental changes and wondering if the end of the world is coming. To prepare, they have created a refuge filled with the things they want to save. In this episode, Madina Jaffari talks to experts about […]
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In case you’ve missed it, we’ve recently put out our second series of MOD.Cast looking at SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE. It digs into some of the facts behind Eucalara and we find answers to what the future may actually look like. We couldn’t have done it without Radio Adelaide, our producer, and our three […]
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In this episode, we meet Ava. Ava has been genetically engineered to be super intelligent and is currently in Austronaut school, living in a space station for this last part of their studies. The final test of Austronaut school is based on team work, but Ava doesn’t thrive in this area. Today, Anna Day is […]
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We’re kicking off our new season of MOD.Cast with Alex. Alex is a remote nurse who works with elderly patients living at home. They were very close with the siblings’ great-grandmother and can’t understand why she’d stop wearing her health monitoring device. In this episode, Meika Bottrill takes us on a journey into the future, […]
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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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What does it mean to be human? We have historically tried to reconcile the question through religion, science, art, or\ philosophy, but none have given us the answers we hope for. Philosophically speaking, Aristotle thought that which makes us human was our power of speech and sense of right and wrong, while Descartes thought that […]
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