A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
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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MOD.’s recent Ethos Event begs the million-dollar question – does history belong in museums, or in our backyards?
The year is 2027. You are on a mission to the original Jurassic Park research facility to retrieve dinosaur DNA for a life-saving drug. Amidst this operation, a failed dinosaur mutant escapes, killing innocent civilians and changing life as we know it today. This is the rough plot line of Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025). The […]
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The ethics of AI in the health space.
Would you trust Doctor Chatbot with your health advice? The first Ethos event of 2025 explored the ethics of AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbots in the health space. Ethos Community of Practice aims to foster a culture of ethical questioning amongst researchers and the public. Dr Aaron Davis and Andrew Lymn-Penning began with a Mentimeter survey […]
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By Ella Marie Di Stasio In the 2024/2025 summer, I had the exciting opportunity to research how MOD. builds ethical futures-thinking capabilities. To do this I analysed data from the BROKEN exhibition. MOD.’s work in innovation, research, curation, futures-thinking, and Snyder’s Hope Theory, inspired me because it aligns with my interdisciplinary studies in engineering and […]
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