A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
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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Written by Laura Phan
It’s no question that countless people across the planet have had plans derailed amidst this pandemic-fuelled global disruption, and PhD graduates are no different. From skipping out on walks across the graduation stage for downloaded PDF parchments and defending 100,000-word theses in bedrooms via video call, this PhD Celebration blog series for LIFE INTERRUPTED will […]
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You might notice a black MOD. shipping container getting around town. If you’re game, go inside and sit in one of the large metal chairs. You’ll be guided through a series of tasks and given mild electrical shocks which cause discomfort, and even pain. Why? To challenge your perception of pain and explore how pain […]
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There are two exhibits at MOD. that have been making us feel a little differently to how they did before. Within SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE, one of the siblings – Julia – has the core value of safety. They’re worried. They’ve noticed invasive species and the environmental changes, so Julia is building a bushfire […]
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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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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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