A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Free, romantic and fun
You’ve built up the courage to ask your crush out and they said yes! Now make your visit to MOD. special with a few of our tips: Break the ice with a board game session At the café counter you will find a shelf of board games free for you to use. There are plenty […]
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Futurist-In-Resident and SA Water Visiting Research Fellow, Maggie Greyson, spent a month with MOD. in 2025. She is a globally recognised futurist and designer who is celebrated for her award-winning work in both fields. She specialises in helping organisations and individuals envision the future, enabling them to make informed decisions for now and later. Maggie […]
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Jeremy Bentham Our Futurist-in-Residence and BHP’s Visiting Research Fellow (VRF), Jeremy Bentham, joined us in November. He is currently Co-Chair (Scenarios) at the World Energy Council and a senior advisor to several international organisations. After over 40 years in the energy industry, he recently retired as the long-serving Head of the renowned Shell Scenarios Team […]
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Why do we host Futurists-In-Residence? As a future-oriented museum of discovery, MOD. knows that innovative ways of thinking, making, and communicating are needed to continuously, year after year, create impactful exhibitions for our audience that build their skills to better anticipate, navigate and shape futures. To do this, we need to ensure that our team […]
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The MOD. Youth Board is a program for young people who are interested in testing, prototyping, and co-designing exciting new museum concepts, exhibitions, events, and experiences. Who you are: You are between 15 and 25 years of age You may be a student at Adelaide University, but you don’t have to be You are interested […]
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Lina Srivastava is a strategist, writer, speaker, producer, and storyteller. Driven by the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to create lives of fulfilment in peaceful, just, prosperous communities, Lina dedicates her work to community-led social transformation. She is the founder and director of the Center for Transformational Change. A social enterprise that supports community-led […]
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Vaughn Tan is an independent strategy consultant who works with governments, businesses, and not-for-profits to build effective strategies for adapting to uncertain futures. He is the author of The Uncertainty Mindset (Columbia University Press, 2020), a book about using uncertainty as a strategic tool for designing innovative and adaptable organizations. Vaughn is a Fellow of […]
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Our 2025 Youth Board has brought together eight young people once a month to share their ideas, play test exhibit elements for our 2026 exhibition and all the while planning their special event. Our Youth Board included a mix of people passionate about arts, design and science. Some were in high school, other were working […]
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In 2025 MOD. welcomed 8 students from a diverse range of high schools across Adelaide and regional South Australia for a week’s work experience placement. These year 10 and 11 students joined the MOD. team in a variety of activities including – exhibition design workshops, user testing, vendor progress meetings and engaging with visitors while […]
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Last week MOD. was thrilled to welcome students from the STEM Aboriginal Learner Congress, an inspirational 2 day, in-person event hosted at Adelaide Oval, supported by the Department for Education and co-designed with the Young Aboriginal STEM Thinkers of South Australia (YASTSA). The Congress helps young people to engage with science, technology, engineering and mathematics […]
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