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This workshop uses Midjourney as a generative design partner to rapidly explore architectural ideas, atmospheres, and spatial concepts.
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Text-to-image diffusion models are an accessible way for artists, architects, and designers to experiment with generative Artificial Intelligence. Midjourney is one such platform that engages our imaginations and lets us explore and test design ideas in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take to draw, model, or render.
This Midjourney workshop emphasizes using the generative nature of AI to brainstorm ideas and produce surface, material, lighting, and atmospheric effects. Along the way, we will develop and craft prompts (the instructions we give to the AI model), adjust advanced parameters, and further customize the Midjourney platform as a way to sharpen your ideas and augment your design process.
This workshop is about rapid iteration and prolific design explorations that are non-deterministic, as we give up some of our control to Midjourney and take advantage of this platform’s generative capacity as a virtual creative partner at our fingertips.
Text prompting for Midjourney
Image prompting for Midjourney
Customizing Midjourney with Mood boards and advanced parameters
Video generation in Midjourney
Outcomes include “storyboards” that describe your new AI-augmented workflows
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Joshua Vermillion is an award-winning designer, scholar, and educator who explores the use of machines to augment creativity, research, and teaching. He is a professor in the School of Architecture at UNLV, where he has co-edited two books and presented peer-reviewed creative research around the world.
His teaching and creative work span artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational and algorithmic design, digital fabrication, and robotics. This work has led to high-profile collaborations, including the first AI/photography hybrid fashion magazine cover and editorial for Harper’s BAZAAR. He has also partnered with companies and organizations such as Samsung, Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover, ELLE Décor, Sony Music, and Architectural Digest, contributing creative work, research, and thought leadership.
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