Are you passionate about research, public engagement, art, science and technology? Excited by the opportunity to interact with artists, scholars and experts from all over the world? Curious to know what goes on behind the scenes at a Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) exhibition?

Join our QUANTUM Mediator Team! 

Apply by:  31 March 2026

Programme Dates: 06 June 2026 – 31 December 2026

Stipend: Rs. 1,000 for each working day (training period will be unpaid)

Who is a Mediator? 

Mediators are the public face of Science Gallery Bengaluru exhibitions who work part-time and converse with visitors about the various concepts explored in our themed exhibition-seasons. They are often the first and only point of contact for visitors, and drive the experience of the exhibition by sharing insights, provoking questions and triggering debates. They also get behind the scene access to the various forces that shape an exhibition-season at Science Gallery Bengaluru! 

Mediators do not teach or explain content but encourage curious engagement with it. Mediators also have a more general role in ensuring a warm, safe welcome and providing an outstanding experience for all our visitors. 

Mediators are:

• Young people between the ages of 18 – 30.
• Effective communicators who connect with audiences.
• Interested in interdisciplinary approaches to public engagement.
• Team players looking to collaborate with peers on research-backed public engagement projects.
• Creative individuals eager to develop new modes of visitor engagement and experiment with learning in public spaces

Mediators will:

• Train with exhibiting artists and scholars to understand the process behind the creation of different exhibits. 
• Work with the Science Gallery Bengaluru team to create and manage audience experience on the exhibition floor.
• Conceptualise and execute informal programmes related to the theme of the exhibition-season.
• Develop skills in communication, writing, critical thinking, and design thinking.
• Support outreach efforts by representing SGB at offsite events.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply, you should be:

• Between 18 – 30 years of age at the time of applying.
• Based in Bengaluru and able to come to Science Gallery Bengaluru in Sanjaynagar.
• From any discipline or background. You could be studying, working, or pursuing anything else.
• Available for training on all weekends from 063 June 2026  and 01 August 2026.
• Available to mediate for a part-time commitment for 7-months between June 2026 to December 2026.

Ability to speak Kannada and other Indian languages is highly desirable. 

Programme Structure

This programme is divided into two parts:

TRAINING

• Introduction to Science Gallery Bengaluru and the exhibition-season QUANTUM.
• 101 sessions that will cover fundamental concepts around the exhibition theme.
• Training sessions with existing and former SGB Experimentors and Mediators.
• Monthly training sessions with the Learning Team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Attend all training sessions and actively participate in practice sessions. 
• Read the QUANTUM Exhibition Handbook to further your understanding of the exhibits.
• Immerse and absorb the entire exhibition and develop a critical understanding of each exhibit.
• Clear exhibit reviews conducted by the Learning Team and Experimentors
• Mediate for the exhibition-season QUANTUM  on weekends.
• Support the Experimentors with Student Learning Experiences
• Create and run themed walkthroughs and public programmes.

Provide critical reflections on the exhibition and programmes—both from your own experience and from visitor feedback. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions, or if any part of this application procedure is inaccessible to you, please write to us at mentorship@bengaluru.sciencegallery.com and we will assist you accordingly. 

SENSUAL Exhibition Open Call 

We are inviting project submissions for Science Gallery Melbourne's upcoming exhibition, SENSUAL. This form has 32 fields in total and will take approximately 30 minutes to an hour to complete. If you have any questions about the application process, please reach out to us via email at info@melbourne.sciencegallery.com

This open call will close on Thursday 30 April, 11:59pm (UTC, Coordinated Universal Time).  

• London time: Thursday 30 April, 11:59pm
• Bengaluru time: Friday 1 May, 5:29am
• Monterrey time: Thursday 30 April, 5:59pm
• Melbourne time: Friday 1 May, 9:59am

Exhibition description and sub-themes

SENSUAL

Sweet, smoky, sour scents. Soft, slimy, sticky, and soothing sensations. 

Experience seeps in through the senses. 

Amidst the present onslaught of surreal visual information, tune into physicality as an antidote. We can distinguish flavours and smells. Feel temperature, texture, pressure and vibration. We know when we are in pain, off-balance, or dancing to a rhythm. Ensembles of sensory neurons are constantly channelling information to our brains for processing. This exhibition seeks to tweak the sensorial streams we are tuning into, shifting the mix to amplify palpable qualities of perception. It’s getting harder to believe what we see, so how can we build trust in what we feel?

Out of sight, out of mind, and into the body – come together and probe the rich sensory layer between our inner world and the external environment. 

We are looking for participatory, experiential and experimental projects from across disciplines that explore the senses beyond sight. 

Subthemes include (but are not limited to):

• Sensory modalities beyond sight (i.e. smell, taste, touch, hearing, pain, proprioception, interoception and more)
• Human and non-human perception 
• Embodiment 
• Lived experiences of differences in sensory perception (Blindness, d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing, anosmia, ageusia, somatosensory loss, synaesthesia)
• Collective sense-making and exploration
• Phenomenology
• Psychedelics 
• Information processing
• Sensory augmentation with technology
• Biomimicry
• Pheromones 
• First Nations knowledge and cultural perspectives in relation to the exhibition themes

Some considerations:

This open call invites you to propose installations and research projects that can operate in a shared-space group exhibition context in a non-traditional gallery environment, where the light and sound conditions aren’t constant. Projects selected via our open call are generally funded for up to $8000 AUD (Australian dollars), which includes all fees, materials, freight, and other project costs. Please note that this is a maximum amount, not a target amount. Unfortunately, at this stage, we are usually not able to include travel costs in this budget. These projects will be open to the public for approximately ten months attended by upwards of 30,000+ people, with a focus on 15–30-year olds. We value projects that are simple in their invitation, opening the door for complex debate and ongoing enquiry. We love projects that are iterative, interactive, contribute to genuine research and that are interdisciplinary. We love humour, provocation, speculation, and irreverent ideas that entertain people first and then educate them. The project you propose can be a new idea, in-development or evolved for another presentation or existing works that are ready to go.