A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our Youth Board is now in its second year and we’d like to share the experiences from our members. This group of eight young people have different interests, some are at school, some at uni, and some are working. All of them are excited about science, art, and helping to create experiences for young people […]
Read moreWe set a schools design challenge this year to think about how over the next 50 years our bodies might break out of the limits of life on earth to explore new environments in space, or in virtual environments, and the types of challenges this brings. Or how we overcome limits imposed by changing climates […]
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It is common to have an existential crisis when looking up at space. But what about when you look down? We mean deep down, into the depths of the ocean. There’s a whole world down there that we don’t understand, waiting to be discovered. In our latest Q series, we explored these questions through conversation, […]
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