A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Transforming old exhibit components from trash to treasure
One of our guiding principles is being “Sustainable for Life”. So when we come to the end of an exhibition, we endeavour to repurpose all the bits and pieces that have made up the exhibits on show in our galleries. In the past, if we could not find a new home, or a suitable reuse […]
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Interactive exhibits get a bit tricky during a pandemic. One of our design principles here at MOD. is to be participatory, that is, creating spaces for doing, not just seeing. But if you can’t touch something, how can you interact with it? Here are a few good ways we found while developing It’s Complicated. Feeding […]
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The Hooded Lycrabot (Flore pneumaticae) is a synthetic organism that can detect heat from living things. We have been cultivating them here at MOD. for quite a while, and since it is World Creativity and Innovation Day, we decided it was as good a time as any to release them on an unsuspecting public. The […]
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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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At the start of the year, automation and artificial intelligence were challenging the future of work, and the climate crisis was reshaping our expectations of the economy and nature. And then COVID-19 hit. These large shifts are changing the practices of museums, and as a result new ideas and practices are emerging in digital spaces. […]
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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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SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE may have been hibernating over the last few months, but behind the scenes we have been preparing to welcome you back to future. We’ve also been doing some thinking with UniSA lecturer, Grant Hall. Grant is interested in transformational experiences. He has recently completed a Masters thinking about how festivals […]
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Work placements are a fantastic tool to help students navigate their career choices in the future, so we thought it was important to adapt this program given the current COVID-19 pandemic. During pre-Covid, work placements at MOD. students would have the opportunity to experience our exhibits first hand, which includes shadowing our exhibit moderators during […]
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Celebrating our second birthday by reflecting on a year of uninhibited exploration
MOD. turns 2 this week. We are still learning. And while in regular times we might celebrate this milestone with a gathering of community, this year we’re keeping it small by looking at the world through the eyes of a toddler in a year of uninhibited exploration. A year of uninhibited exploration “It is a […]
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