A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Schools Design Challenge 2022 Each year, MOD. holds a Schools Design Challenge open to secondary school students across the state. We offer a provocation related to our current exhibition and ask students to come up with a creative response. This year, for our exhibition INVISIBILITY, we asked: What is invisible that shouldn’t be? We invited […]
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Can you tell us a little bit about what you are working on for your PhD Simon? I’m working on developing a terrain mapping system which uses information from bionic rat-like facial whiskers and other tactile sensors aboard a legged robot for modelling the terrain and its traversability to aid in guiding legged robots through […]
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When everything changed in 2020, the research conducted by Sensor Systems group at UniSA STEM changed too. Adaptability is really just the ability for a system to change in evolving conditions. When the pandemic struck, Javaan Chahl and his group were able to adapt a machine vision and AI process, initially designed around search and […]
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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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Have you ever stopped to contemplate the objects around you? From clothes you wear, the cutlery you eat with, to the device you’re reading this on – our everyday objects slice through time to the origins of our universe, emerge from all continents across our globe, and are extracted, manufactured and transported by many human hands […]
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In a future of collapse, there is an implant relating to pets. This is the type of prompt you might get when playing The Thing From the Future, a game of speculative design created by Stuart Candy at the Situation Lab. It’s hard for us to think about the future in abstract ways. These prompts, […]
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In the midst of the informational chaos of an Australian election, Brexit and the US primaries, how do we weigh the damage that social media has done to democracy? Is there a way in which the algorithms that optimise the technology towards misinformation and division might instead be directed to sustain peace? MOD. commissioned Superflux […]
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Who controls the satellites that surround us?
Satellites come in a myriad of shapes and sizes, and if you have visited the Universal Gallery at MOD. during Waging Peace, you will have experienced the diverse ecosystem of satellites orbiting the room. These satellites, selected by Dr Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist that you can find online @DrSpaceJunk, and modelled and animated by […]
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At the end of September I participated in the Digital Humanities Conference Australasia, held at the UniSA City West campus. It was an opportunity to hear from people working in the digital humanities around the world, and I enjoyed talks on topics from the intersection of technology and museums, to how social media analysis has […]
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