A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
In the depths of pre-WAGING PEACE planning we were trying to think of hands-on activities for our Polar Commons exhibit. We wanted something that people could do together over the course of the whole exhibition. We wanted something that would be easy enough to moderate. Someone off-handedly suggested we knit jumpers for penguins.* We spent […]
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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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When we opened our Peace Machine school project, we weren’t really sure what we were going to get. We were hoping for a mix of exciting and terrifying innovations from South Australian school students, and students across the state delivered. We received some that would change the world, a necklace that split in half to […]
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Internships are an opportunity to open ‘Staff Only’ doors. I used this opportunity to peek into the world of MOD., a museum I had been enthralled by as both a visitor and as a museum studies student. As I am coming to the end of my Masters in Cultural Heritage I am starting to form a more […]
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Are there particles of non-terrestrial origin in our Cosmic Living Room? Two thirds of the dust in your house comes from outside, tracked in from your feet or as airborne particles. Dust is always along for the ride, dropping off or being picked up, it follows you everywhere you go, through the mundane as often as […]
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Written by Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman
A few years ago, we started to think about the problems of communicating with sentient beings beyond our planet. Since the earliest days of the Space Age, scientists have tried to send messages to other beings using spacecraft and radio signals. They’ve used telescopes to look for possible signs of planetary engineering, and listened for […]
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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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Last fortnight I had the pleasure of participating in Stuart Campbell’s (aka Sutu) workshop on augmented reality (AR). AR is an interactive experience of the real-world whereby computer-generated sensory information, e.g., visual, auditory, etc is overlaid with the physical world in a way that is perceived as immersive. If you have not experienced AR yet, […]
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A four-part podcast series by UniSA final year journalism students.
What happens when you bring together one of Australia’s newest and most innovative public museums, MOD. with a trio of final year journalism students? MOD.cast – a four-part podcast series that asks some of the big and controversial questions young people want to understand. The series explores reality in a virtual world, the blur between […]
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