Daniel Lawrance

Mr Daniel Lawrance

Manager, Production

Community and Regional Engagement

International and External Engagement

Daniel Lawrance is the Production Manager at MOD., where he has directed the museum’s visitor experience, digital approach and operational infrastructure since its inception. He bridges the gap between vision and execution, partnering with artists, researchers, and creative technologists to realise award-winning immersive and interactive artworks. With a strategic focus, Daniel manages MOD.’s daily operations including its galleries, studios, advanced AV and IT systems, and an incredible team of front-of-house staff. His background in film and video production informs a unique approach to translating exhibitions into compelling, narrative-driven experiences.

Date Position Institution name
2017 - ongoing Manager: Production Adelaide University

Year Citation
2026 Bailey, L., Lawrance, D., James, A., Azad, S., Alford, K., & Ferguson, B. (2026). Translating research into play: design insights for evidence-based science games in museum settings. Journal of Science Communication, 25(1), 0-18.
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Year Citation
2025 von der Borch, C., Bailey, L., Lawrance, D., & Alford, K. (2025). Beyond Endings (Extent: Jan - November) [Museum Exhibition]. Australia: MOD., Adelaide University.
2025 von der Borch, C., Bailey, L., & Lawrance, D. (2025). Intergenerational Cards (Extent: Jan - Nov) [Exhibition]. Australia: MOD., Adelaide University.
2024 Bailey, L., DeLosAngeles, D., Carfora, N., von der Borch, C., Lawrance, D., & Alford, K. (2024). What if no one owned a home? (Extent: Exhibit including five types of visitor engagement.) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2024 Bailey, L., DeLosAngeles, D., Carfora, N., von der Borch, C., Lawrance, D., & Alford, K. (2024). BROKEN (Extent: Immersive exhibition of 10 exhibits) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2023 Bailey, L., von der Borch, C., Lawrance, D., & Alford, K. (2023). Bodification (Extent: Exhibition) [Exhibition]. Australia: University of South Australia.
2022 Watterson, T., & Roberts, Z. (2022). Seeing the unseen: <i>INVISIBILITY</i> at MOD. (Extent: 14 exhibits) [Exhibition]. Australia: Informa UK Limited.
2022 Bailey, L., Carfora, N., Lawrance, D., Sidhu, S., Woznicka, A., Baker, A. G., . . . Walker, P. (2022). Underground (Extent: immersive exhibition) [Exhibition]. Australia: MOD.
2021 DeLosAngeles, D., Alford, K., Bailey, L., Lawrance, D., Newchurch, D., Pegoli, S., . . . Aziz, M. (2021). Custom-made (Extent: Robotics) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2021 DeLosAngeles, D., Alford, K., Bailey, L., Newchurch, D., Lawrance, D., & Murphy, H. (2021). It's complicated (Extent: IT’S COMPLICATED was a curated exhibition at MOD featuring 13 exhibits relating to dynamic interconnectedness and complex systems. Visitors were greeted by a set of parachuting cats to exploring case studies of malaria control continuing through games, artworks and interactives across 11 gallery spaces spanning topics such as the ocean, industry innovation, cancer treatment and music and visual arts.The exhibits included 'Operation Cat Drop' and 'Gene Drives' showing approaches to malaria control; 'Feeding Frenzy', a floor based interactive on self-organisation of schooling fish; 'Chaos Machine' demonstrating the importance of starting conditions in a double pendulum interactive; 'Octopus Estate' touchscreen game and app where visitors made decisions to help octopus populations thrive and 'Crazy Little Thing Called BRUV' with footage of marine ecologies of South Australia; 'Seahabilitation' looking at human and ecological approaches to increasing biodiversity including daily oyster feeding; 'Custom-Made' a robotic demonstration of Industry 4.0 principles, 'Pneumatic Blooms' on feedback through squishy robot plants, 'Cave of Sounds' an 8-pronged musical instrument for emergence curated by Tim Murray-Browne (UK), 'Grids, Dots and Codes' artworks exploring maths and textiles by Kate Little (Aus), 'Cell Invaders' showcasing research into car t-cell therapies for cancer; and 'Always Was, Always Will Be' a short story by Karen Wyld (Aus) inspired by Afrofutures.Each exhibit explored the principles of complex systems, communicating scientific research through novel interactive experiences. The curatorial strategy and key research contribution revolved around a series of guiding systems theory principles with corresponding icons, each of which were positioned in the galleries alongside QR codes leading to further information and links on an exhibit’s content, as well as being explored in a series of lunchtime researcher panels.) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2019 Carfora, N., Bailey, L., Alford, K., Newchurch, D., & Lawrance, D. (2019). Seven siblings from the future [Exhibition]. Australia.
2019 Bailey, L., Buckskin James, K., Lawrance, D., & Grumpy, S. (2019). Training ground [Exhibition]. Australia.
2019 Bailey, L., Buckskin James, K., Carfora, N., Alford, K., & Lawrance, D. (2019). Hedonism (Extent: Interactive exhibits) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2018 DeLosAngeles, D., Johnstone, A., Alford, K., Lawrance, D., Banks, S., & Sweeney, J. (2018). Sleep Ops (Extent: five purpose built sleep pods) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2018 DeLosAngeles, D., Johnstone, A., Alford, K., Loffler, S., Lawrance, D., Stanton, T., & Moseley, L. (2018). Feeling human (Extent: Interactive exhibit) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2018 Alford, K., Johnstone, A., Lawrance, D., DeLosAngeles, D., Buckskin James, K., & Carfora, N. (2018). Waging peace (Extent: Exhibition) [Exhibition]. Australia.
2018 Alford, K., Johnstone, A., Lawrance, D., Loffler, S., & DeLosAngeles, D. (2018). MOD.IFY (Extent: artificial worlds) [Exhibition]. Australia.

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