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Ethics

Indigenous IP: Ripe for the Picking?

The unbe-leaf-able reality of Indigenous native foods and how this affects past, present, and emerging Indigenous intellectual property rights.

It is the 1960’s. A Kangaroo Apple is seen growing on a shrub. Before reaching full ripeness, an Indigenous Woman is seen picking said Kangaroo Apple, and consumes it. A non-Indigenous man watches on, intrigued. This fruit stops pregnancy. Extracts from Kangaroo Apple are one of the ingredients of the contraceptive pill. This Indigenous Cultural […]

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Programs

Win a nights stay at Sofitel Hotel – BROKEN party

Win a nights stay at Sofitel Hotel. As part of BROKEN party MOD. is pleased to partner with Sofitel Hotel to offer discounted accommodation and the opportunity to win a night’s stay at the beautiful 5-star CBD hotel.   How do I enter the competition?  Follow @mod_museum on Instagram Tag a friend in the comment […]

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Futurists in Residence

Futurist-i­n-Residence: Dr Jilda Andrews

Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay woman, cultural practitioner and researcher based at ANU in Canberra. She joined us in March and April as our Futurist-in-Residence and Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship (VRF). Hear Jilda recount her fellowship below. Future-Making: Why Place Matters My time as Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellow was exploratory, complex, emergent […]

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Futurists in Residence

Futurist-i­n-Residence: Michael Radke

In February we welcomed Michael Radke to MOD. as our next SA Water Futurist-in-Residence. Mike is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Ubuntu Lab. In addition to leading social impact initiatives, Mike’s work draws on his experience in hands-on-science centres and informal learning. He is designing a distributed network of museums to help people understand […]

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Programs

First Nations AR Masterclass

Building digital capabilities for South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives.

Arts South Australia is providing up to 30 South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists interested in or actively engaging with digital tools and technologies in their creative practice to participate in a three day in-person Augmented Reality (AR) Masterclass. Arts South Australia is excited to offer this Masterclass to support the growth […]

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News

Meet our Vacation Scholarship students

Each year, UniSA offer Vacation Research Scholarships for students to undertake short projects.  We were lucky enough to host three fantastic students this year.  Each took a slightly different approach to analysing the huge data set we gathered in our Canopy exhibit last year. We asked thousands of our visitors for their thoughts on ethical […]

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News

Beyond BROKEN

Different systems for different futures

Beyond BROKEN MOD.’s Beyond BROKEN is a collection of essays that explore better systems for better futures. It’s themes follow that of BROKEN the exhibition, including nature and Country, long-term collaboration, universal services, housing, democracy, and learning. These topics emerged from MOD.’s 2022 Future Themes Forum, a day of conversations led by guests from different […]

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Futurists in Residence

Futurists-­in-Residence: Changeist

Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith from Changeist were the inaugural SA Water Futurists-in-Residence at MOD. during November 2023. Scott Smith is the Founder and Managing Partner, a futures research and consulting partnership established in the US in 2007. Susan Cox-Smith is a Partner and Director: Experience and has over twenty years of experience as a […]

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News

Youth Board – Expression of Interest

Applications are now closed 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 are between 15 and 25 years of age  You may be a student at UniSA, but you don’t […]

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Ethics

Nature is Important

Nature is important Life is wonderful, nature is life, nature is important. Nature is important, that’s something that most of us agree on. But housing, infrastructure, agriculture, animals, re-creation and wellbeing are important too. How do we share nature to satisfy the needs and desires of people, whilst nurturing plants, animals, earth and skies? MOD.’s […]

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