Creative AI with Midjourney
Image Creation with Midjourney
Visual Future Scenarios, Conscious Prompting, and Critical AI Practice
About the Workshop
In this hands-on workshop, we'll use Midjourney to imagine and art-direct speculative future worlds. Through short creative exercises, you'll translate your ideas into images: scenarios of environments, objects, materials, characters, and social rituals.
We'll cover key Midjourney terms and practice conscious prompting, treating AI image generation as a creative process rather than a slot machine. You'll learn to make aesthetic choices, ask critical questions about system outputs, and gain authorship through selection, evaluation, and iteration.
We'll explore:
Translating an abstract future idea into a visual concept
Developing environments, objects, materials, characters, and social rituals
Writing prompts with greater intention and creative direction
Using image and style references consciously
Directing composition, color, light, materials, and atmosphere
Moving beyond generic AI aesthetics toward a distinctive visual language
Recognizing stereotypes, bias, and visual conventions reproduced by AI
Evaluating and refining results instead of accepting the first image
The workshop draws on the FLUXUS mindset, combining creative experimentation with human direction, critical reflection, and responsible AI use.
We'll close with a collective gallery of imagined futures and a conversation: which of these futures would we genuinely want to build?
No advanced Midjourney experience is required, but participants should have an active account and basic familiarity with the interface. Please also come with some familiarity with Miro, as we'll be using it as our shared whiteboard.
Please Bring
💻 A laptop and charger
🎨 An active Midjourney account, tested before the workshop
📓 A journal and pen
🖼️ Optional: photographs, textures, objects, or other visual references
✨ Curiosity and a willingness to experiment
Program
19:00 Arrival
19:15 Introduction and "What if…?" exercise
19:35 Midjourney demonstration and conscious prompting
20:00 Future-world creation and guided experimentation
20:50 Collective gallery and critical reflection
21:15 Conversation, connection, and music
About Ulrike Kerber
Ulrike Kerber is a creative director, motion designer, educator, and PhD researcher exploring how designers can work creatively, critically, and responsibly with generative AI. Through her FLUXUS learning framework, she combines Design Thinking, visual experimentation, embodied reflection, and AI literacy to support human-directed creative practice.