10 Tactics for Innovation: How To Have Fun Doing Research in Art, Design, and Digital Media
Welcome to the IDDV Talks Vancouver Series (#9)!
This time, we have the privilege of hosting Dr. Garnet Hertz, who will be sharing his take on creative research in action.
🌟About this talk:
Research in creative fields doesn’t need to be dry, rigid, or disconnected from joy. In fact, some of the most innovative work in art, design, and digital media comes from embracing experimentation, curiosity, and play.
In this talk, Dr. Garnet Hertz will outline ten concrete tactics for approaching research as a creative practice —
strategies that range from:
prototyping quickly,
remixing cultural artifacts,
embracing failure as a form of insight.
Drawing from a century of interdisciplinary examples in art and design — as well as from his own projects in robotics, DIY electronics, and critical making — Hertz will show how fun, humor, and hands-on exploration can be powerful engines for serious innovation.
By reframing research as an activity that thrives on curiosity and play, this talk invites students, researchers, and practitioners to see their own projects through new lenses:
not as a linear path to a single solution,
but as an open-ended series of experiments.
Participants will leave with:
practical tactics they can apply in their own work,
and a reminder that fun and rigor aren’t opposites, but companions in building the future of creative practice.
🎤 Meet Our Speaker:
Garnet Hertz is Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts, and is Associate Professor of Design at Emily Carr University. His art and research investigate DIY culture, electronic art, and critical design practices. He has exhibited in 18 countries, in venues including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and DEAF, and has won top international awards for his work, including the Oscar Signorini Award in robotic art, a Fulbright award, and the Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). He has worked as a Faculty member at Art Center College of Design and as a Research Scientist at the University of California, Irvine. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press coverage of his work has been disseminated in 25 countries, including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo, and CNN Headline News.
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📅 Event Agenda
5:00 PM — Doors Open, Light Food & Mingling
5:30 – 7:00 PM — Talk by Dr. Garnet Hertz
7:00 PM – End — Networking & Wrap-up
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🌟About CAMD
The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern is a vibrant community of creators, designers, and communicators working together to harness data and emerging technologies to advance human potential and solve the challenges of the future. Our Master of Science in Information Design and Data Visualization (IDDV) program combines analytical methods and design principles with training in visual communication.
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