A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
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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Our Youth Board has just wrapped up its third year and we’d like to share the experiences from our members. This group of 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 […]
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We’ve been running the Future Themes Forum at MOD. since 2019 as a way to find exhibition themes that are relevant and resonate with our audience. Earlier this year we published a paper, to share this method of participatory exhibition development with the museum community (which you can read online here). Over the last few […]
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Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and sustainable futures. Edited by Director of MOD. Dr Kristin Alford, the book presents 21 examples that demonstrate how museums are cultivating […]
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