Science Gallery Melbourne

The highs and lows of an anxious egg.

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More about Phone Tag.

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George Goodnow (aka Goodie) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates painting, sculpture, performance and the use of cardboard to produce immersive installations. By fabricating fictional architectures and objects, or adjusting existing architectures, George considers how spaces reflect, orientate and hold bodies. Recent work explores notions of friendship, ownership, gender and binaries within suburban and metropolitan landscapes.

Chicken pushed to the extreme.

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More about Phone Tag.

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Science Gallery Melbourne Creative Director Ryan Jefferies is a passionate advocate of science and arts in equal measures. He is former Curator of the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, has a PhD in infectious disease research and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Western Australia and the University of Bristol. He is also a trained taxidermist.

Welcome to Phone Tag. An audio experiment from Science Gallery Melbourne.

We’ve invited some of our nearest and dearest to collaborate on this delightfully strange audio adventure. You’ll hear from scientists, artists, poets, engineers. Each day one person contributes a piece of the story, which becomes the spark for the next person to build from, and so on. 

It's a bit like an audio relay, a bit like a game of Exquisite Corpse, that writey-drawy-foldy-story paper game. Because at the end of the week, all the responses are stitched together. And each Friday we unveil the full audio essay and marvel at how it's evolved through our four contributing brains.

Subscribe, like and tell your friends that something weird and wonderful is on its way to your podcast feed, starting Monday 25 May.

Science Gallery Melbourne is part of the Global Science Gallery Network pioneered by Trinity College Dublin. Find out more about SGM and the Network at melbourne.sciencegallery.com 

Theme music by Sound of Picture. Artwork by Ashley Ronning.

Ruba Bender has been trying to achieve a zero-waste lifestyle ever since she lived through the 1999 earthquake in Turkey. After seeing so much destruction, she was inspired to start making small changes in her own daily life.

Reporters: Yavuz Yilmazoglu, Zixun Wang, David Bogi, Yike Cai

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

Thousands of people have used a safe drug-injecting centre in North Richmond since it opened one year ago. Many see it as a way to save lives, but others think it’s more of a problem than a solution.

Reporters: Else Kennedy, Claire Capel-Stanley, Yunfei Wang, Fangying Zhou

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

In India, thousands of women use cloth pads for their periods– even when disposable versions are available. Inderpreet Kaur shares her personal experience with menstruation.

Reporters: Wing Kuang, Chang He, Inderpreet Kaur

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

When chemicals love each other very much, they bind together to make plastic. Add some heat and a mould, and a takeaway container like me is born.

Reporters: Ashleigh Hastings, Yahan Tao, Wei Lu, Nazli Bahmani

This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

Every day, Australians use roughly 2,700,000 paper coffee cups destined to end up in landfill. How far have we come in the push to use reusable cups?

Reporters: Bren Carruthers, Jiaqian Chen, Ying Suo, Zhenyu Dong

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

Many people are trying to lead a greener life, but what about a greener death? Siobhan Motherway is hoping to reduce her environmental impact from beyond the grave.

Reporters: Dino Vlachos, Jess Cockerill, Yingxuan Li, Jingyi Lai​

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used our 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.

Charlie and Ginnie are young professionals from the suburbs of Melbourne who make more than enough money to put food on the table. But once a week, they jump into dumpsters to fish out groceries they think are going to waste.

Reporters: Danielle O’Neal, Duolin Li, Jingjie Liu, Inger Kviseth

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This episode was produced by first year Melbourne University Journalism students, with mentoring from All the Best radio. They used Science Gallery Melbourne's 2019 pop-up exhibition DISPOSABLE as inspiration for this podcast series about sustainability, the future of our environment and ultimately how we might reimagine our waste.