Collaboration and Innovation
Make Mob empowers artists, designers and engineers to co-create innovative projects that blend art and technology to benefit communities and the environment.
Our Collaborative Model
We amplify individual strengths and create dynamic team synergies, making each project more than the sum of its parts. The model enables collaborators to utilise their expertise on projects that could not be achieved independently and values each person’s work hour equally which equates to a percentage ownership in the project.
Industry Partners
Make Mob builds relationships with businesses and innovators that share our values. We pioneer new techniques, skills, methods and processes by seeking out, learning and using the latest technology to build our projects and blend with our art. Would you like to find out more about how to partner with Make Mob?
Learn more about our leadership team
Board of Directors
Callan Morgan, Founder and Board Member
Callan is the founder and Director of Pelican Studios, a company that specialises in large scale interactive sculptures, creating major works throughout Australia and overseas, with clients including RMIT, University of Melbourne and Melbourne City Council. Pelican Studios has a creative space in Moreland providing a platform for collaborations that blend a wide range of technical, design and artistic skills.
Callan has extensive experience in product development, industrial design and fabrication and has lead numerous collaborative projects including Utility Kinetic Insect (UKI), a large electric powered robotic insect vehicle and Next Cube, LED sculpture permanently installed at the Melbourne School of Design.
Callan is the founder of Make Mob, a Not For Profit company that empowers collaborative projects that benefit the environment and communities of which UKI is a pilot project for. UKI has been a feature project in White Night Melbourne 2018, Melbourne Knowledge week 2017 and received an honorary grant in 2017 to be exhibited at Burningman, USA. Callan is currently working with Architect, Nonda Katsalidis’ on a modular ‘Unitised Building’ system.
Shaye Harty, Board Member
Shaye is a multi-disciplinary artist, project management powerhouse, and founder of a US-based non-profit arts organisation, Kinetic Universe. With over a decade of experience producing art installations and events around the world, she is a born leader and skilled problem solver. Serving as a director on multiple boards of art-driven organisations has given her the knowledge needed to proactively drive policy, mitigate risk, monitor compliance, and administrate large complex budgets with ease.
Shaye thrives on collaboration, and is constantly seeking out opportunities to connect people together in the name of creating art and having fun. She is passionate about artwork that is multi-dimensional, immersive, and designed to be impactful, often influenced by personal experience and focused on bringing a voice to real-world issues. Using the emerging powerful medium of Extended Reality (XR), she desires to shape the world with story-play experiences that dissolve the traditional character-audience barrier.
Michael Fuller, Board Member
Michael spent more than fifteen years as a senior engineer in the European motorsport industry, where he was a designer of championship-winning Formula One, World Rally and Le Mans prototype race cars. His experience and expertise in this space led him to launch Conflux Technology, with the aim of harnessing the potential of additive manufacturing and pioneering thermal technology.
Michael designed Conflux’s patented heat exchanger in 2015 and leads the Conflux team. At age 12, a clear lack of ability behind the wheel of his go-kart didn’t cure him of his obsession with motorsport...engineering beckoned. Conflux was founded with the same tenacious ambition.
Imogen Wells, Board Member
Imogen is a Senior Project Manager at Wintringham, a not-for-profit social housing organisation, where she is currently leading the development of a number of new capital development projects, which in total, will provide new homes for 118 elderly men and women who are financially disadvantaged, homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Imogen has a background in construction management, but her interest in the social, economic and political forces that shape the health and sustainability of our communities, led her to work across multiple countries, in various industries and also to undertake a Masters in International Urban and Environmental Management at RMIT. With a strong focus on the social aspects of our built environment and how we can build resilience into our communities, she believes in the importance of collaboration, knowledge sharing and peer to peer support.
Murray Cook, Board Member
Murray is a career businessman, entrepreneur, innovator, designer, and world traveller. His broad, lifetime experience of new business creation in domestic and international wholesale/retail travel service and airline industries brings a host of knowledge to the board in areas of research, intellectual property, strategic planning, finance, project management, sales and marketing, training, team building, quality control, and Industry body leadership.
He is trained by Conflict Management Australia – a Harvard Law School Project in principled negotiation and Conflict resolution, served in the Australian Army National Service and is committed to using his lifetime of experience to support young peoples’ development, welfare, success through mentorship and serving on the board of an emerging youth welfare not-for-profit organization. Murray also completed a Bachelor of Design [Hons.] - Industrial Design, RMIT University 2010 as a mature age student.