Stratford’s award-winning annual winter festival, Lights On, will feature interactive installations designed by students from the University of Waterloo’s Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. These works will be featured alongside other international exhibits.
46 students from the course “GBDA 412 – Special Topics in Digital Culture” were challenged to create large-scale interactive media art pieces for the Lights On festival, inspired by the Thirteen Grandmother Moons stories, an Indigenous knowledge tradition. Students drew inspiration from this tradition to create installations that explore light as a symbol of knowledge, community, and continuity.
Three student-designed installations will be featured within Destination Stratford’s Welcome Centre.
“It is such an incredible honour for our students to be given the opportunity to showcase their creative talent and critical design skills in a festival of this magnitude,” said David Han, Instructor at the University of Waterloo Stratford.
“This is the second year we’ve collaborated with UWaterloo to create student light art displays, and I continue to be amazed at their creativity and brilliance,” said Zac Gribble, Executive Director of Destination Stratford.
Learn more about this collaboration and the ideas behind the installations, or visit Lights On from December 12, 2025 to January 18, 2026, Thursdays to Sundays, 5 PM to 10 PM.
