ENVISION YOUR BRAND EVOLVING IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD.
LET'S CREATE THIS FUTURE TOGETHER!
FLUXUS
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WORKSHOPS, TRAINING & RETREATS
TO MAKE YOU FIT FOR THE FUTURE
Develop projects with AI -
while engaging your critical thinking, creativity, judgment,
agency, and own style direction.
FLUXUS is an approach for using AI effectively and consciously.
Without the hype.
Creativity and innovation are human.
They emerge from imagination, emotion, embodiment, and conscious presence.
Human intelligence is not only analytic;
it is built on our ability to imagine what does not yet exist.
AI expands this capacity.
It does not replace human creativity but enhances it.
AI acts as an amplifier, a mirror, and a critical collaborator,
widening the field of possibility, ideas, directions, and futures.
It challenges habits, shows our blind spots, accelerates exploration.
AI opens cognitive and aesthetic spaces, we could not access alone.
FLUXUS™
FLUXUS™ is a new approach that helps to promote some of the
most important future skills: creativity, flexibility, and adaptability.
It treats the Human–AI relationship as a dynamic process that requires
awareness, curiosity, and discernment. It emphasizes intentionality over automation,
consciousness over convenience, and meaning over output.
To learn more, become part of our community and choose a format!
Visual Storytelling with Video AI
Five-day intensive , a modular course, or a one-week retreat
Develop a story from initial idea and emotional arc to moodboard, storyboard, moving images, sound, and final presentation.
Outcome: a short film, visual story, campaign piece, character film, or story prototype.
Future Scenarios Lab
One-day workshop
Use signals of change, speculative questions, visualization, and AI-assisted prototyping to explore possible futures.
Outcome: a visual future scenario connected to a real project, organization, or personal question.
Project Development: From Idea to Impact
One-day workshop or five-day course
For participants developing a product, service, educational concept, campaign, or passion project. We will use the AI-assisted Design Thinking Model AIDT.
Outcome: a defined challenge, expanded set of ideas, selection criteria, and visual prototype.
FLUXUS -Creative AI & Embodiment
A Three-Day Retreat
For beginners and curious people who want to connect 5Rhythm workshops with Creative AI exploration
AI Discovery Lab
Six-session live online course
For beginners and curious people who want to develop a passion project through playful experiments with text, images, video, sound, and storytelling.
Outcome: a personal creative project and an ongoing creative habit.
Creative Playground with AI
Six-session live online course
For beginners and curious people who want to develop a passion project through playful experiments with text, images, video, sound, and storytelling.
Outcome: a personal creative project and an ongoing creative habit.
CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Explore new ideas, develop projects, and maintain a conscious relationship
with AI - keep your judgment, authorship, and direction. Choose a format here to learn more.
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Not sure about which format fits best? Tell us about your group, interests, and available time — we adapt existing formats to the needs of the team. Let's talk.
How Booking Works
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Choose a format or describe what you need.
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Schedule a short exploratory conversation, use Whatsapp or Message.
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Receive a proposed format, scope, and date options.
Courses for individuals are offered when a cohort is formed.
Organizations may request private workshops and dates throughout the year.
FLUXUS
A HUMAN-CENTERED
DESIGN APPROACH
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FLUXUS - THE CONCEPT
Conceptual Foundations of FLUXUS and AIDT (AIDT)
The rise of AI is reshaping how designers learn and work, and many existing educational course structures can’t keep pace with rapidly changing tools and expectations.
Design education needs environments that are flexible, hands-on, and centered on the people learning, not just the technology. This is the context in which the FLUXUS framework was created. FLUXUS offers a holistic way of structuring learning spaces and experiences that support the AI-Assisted Design Thinking (AIDT) process.
While AIDT focuses on how designers ideate, prototype, and iterate with AI and AR tools, FLUXUS defines the mindset and conditions that make this kind of learning possible.
The name reflects its intent. Flux signals movement and ongoing change, mirroring today’s design landscape, and us highlights collaboration and shared agency. Together, FLUXUS describes a learning philosophy that is adaptive, communal, and continually evolving.
Philosophical Foundations
FLUXUS draws from these interrelated theoretical traditions:
1. Experiential and Constructivist Learning.
Design education is rooted in doing, testing, and refining. Drawing on Kolb and Dewey, FLUXUS reinforces the idea that learning happens through active engagement with tools, materials, and communities. In this model, AI becomes part of the creative process rather than an external add-on, helping learners explore, iterate, and make meaning through experimentation.
2. Reflective Practice and Professional Growth.
Inspired by Schön’s work on reflective practice, FLUXUS integrates moments of mindful observation and shared reflection. Simple rituals—journaling, group critiques, or short grounding exercises—support focus, emotional balance, and critical thinking. These skills matter even more in fast-changing, tech-heavy environments.
3. Flow and Creative Performance.
Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow shapes how FLUXUS structures learning experiences. By creating a safe, supportive environment with clear challenges and collaborative feedback, the framework aims to help learners reach states of deep focus and collective creative momentum.
THE STRENGTH
Taken together, these traditions conceptualize learning as a process that is active, reflective, and affectively engaging.
FLUXUS extends these ideas into the contemporary context of AI-augmented design,
proposing that learning itself is always in flux = dynamic, adaptive, and co-constructed.
The term functions as an educational metaphor, not an art-historical lineage: it evokes movement and transformation
while the suffix us = emphasizes shared agency and community. In this sense, FLUXUS encapsulates the philosophical spirit of
continuous change and collective creation that underpins the framework’s design.
THE RESEARCH
Workshops and learning materials were developed in multiple studies with design and content creator students at universities in Sweden, Germany, and the USA, as well as several workshops for professional teams, all extending over the course of the last 3 years.
In addition, nine expert interviews and auto-ethnographical observations were conducted, and analyzed.
Three peer-to-peer articles were written to substantiate the framework.
ULRIKE KERBER
25+ years experience as motion designer & creative director for International media & entertainment industry in Los Angeles, brand development and content creation
Doctoral researcher · Developer of FLUXUS
Ulrike Kerber is a creative director, AI artist and researcher (PhD). With more than 25 years of experience as a designer, creative director, and founder of the award-winning design studio Viva Design, she has worked with global media brands including Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon, E! Entertainment, and BET. Her work has received multiple recognitions, including an Emmy nomination and Promax awards. She holds an MA in Communication Design and a second MA in Digital Management with a focus on AI and Creativity from Hyper Island (2023). As a PhD researcher, she examines how AI can enhance creativity, and how design education reshapes in rapidly evolving technological environments. She leads AI workshops in Design Thinking, Speculative Design, Motion Design, and experimental storytelling, and contributes to scientific research in AI and creative practice. Her books "The Best AI Tools for Designers" and "Ancestors of the Future" are available on Amazon. She teaches motion design at Berlin International University (BA) and design management and AI at the Media University (MA). She previously served as a professor of visual communication at SCAD, USA. Other positions include industry leader at Hyper Island, Sweden; lecturer at Berghs School of Business, University of Communication, China; and AI workshop leader at the Design Thinking Center of Kazakhstan.
THE FOUNDER
CUSTOM AI TRAININGS FOR
CREATIVE LEADERS & TEAMS
WORKSHOP PROJECTS EXAMPLES
Custom-Designed for You and Your Team!
Explore how AI can deepen creativity, strengthen ideation, and support more thoughtful workflows.
These sessions introduce current tools and practices while focusing on conscious, human-centered creative development. Formats available:
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Online Workshops
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Weekend Retreats
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One-week Intensive
1. ONLINE AI WORKSHOPS
Facilitated Online once/week over the course of six weeks. Examples:
Workshop 1: An overview of AI tools, emerging technologies and new workflows.
Workshop 2: Logo Design and Branding with AI: Using AI tools to create complete branding packages in the time it needs to eat a sandwich
Workshop 3: Typography and Logo Design.
It has been notoriously hard to create type with AI Tools, but there are tricks to achieve results. How can we max out AI to create type, logos, find font pairings for websites?
Workshop 4
Creating Talking Head Videos.
Let's create and animate an avatar, a portrait, and let it speak in the voice of a celebrity, AI voice, or your own
Workshop 5
Prompting fashion iconic images.
Mona Lisa on Project Runway, designing fashion and seamless patterns
Workshop 6
Finding your own StyleBoard. Creating Manga, Cartoon, and Illustration styles
These are Examples Only. Please contact Viva Design for more info or book here.
2. AI CREATIVE WEEKEND RETREAT
by Viva Design at a beautiful location in Berlin
Starting Friday at noon, concluding Sunday at 2 pm.
A focused, immersive weekend designed to expand imagination and unlock deeper creative potential. Themes can be "World-Building with AI"
Each day combines grounding practices: movement, intention-setting, breathwork, followed by six hours of concentrated work using current image and video AI tools.
Participants create visual worlds, experiment with new aesthetics, and explore future scenarios through guided creative exercises.
Friday and Saturday Evenings include either a sound bath and meditation or a self-hypnosis session to support reflection and integration. This intensive is ideal for design leaders, founders, and creators who want to stretch their imagination, develop visionary concepts, or revive projects that have been waiting for attention. Come with a project or arrive open. The emphasis is on curiosity, experimentation, and creative courage.
3. ONE-WEEK CREATIVE INTENSIVE RETREAT
led by Viva Design at a beautiful location in nature.
A full week dedicated to storytelling, imagination, and conscious creative practice. Each day begins with intention-setting, movement, and breathwork guided by our mindfulness instructor, followed by focused sessions with our AI expert.
The curriculum moves from foundations to image-based storytelling , cinematic prompting and storyboarding, video editing, sound, and effects , and concludes with project presentations and peer review.
Participants develop narrative concepts, produce visual worlds, and refine their stories through collaboration, feedback, and shared experimentation. The retreat takes place in a natural setting to counterbalance the digital work and offer space for reflection, grounding, and reset.
Community, co-creation, and friendship are central to the experience. All details from environment to pacing, from creative exercises to shared meals, are designed with care. Food is organic, sustainable, and nourishing. This week is ideal for those who want to break habits, step outside the ordinary, and create something genuinely new and exciting.
Workshops along with our tailored trainings, are perfect for company-specific events. If you're interested in exploring how we can bring this innovation to your team or event, get in touch.
David Hwang, CA
I highly recommend Ulrike’s MidJourney seminar for designers, illustrators and creative directors. As an early adopter of MidJourney, and as an established creative director herself, Ulrike’s knowledge of MidJourney shows how A.I. can be useful as a tool to enhance the creative process and possibilities of A.I. assisting your workflow. I really enjoyed joining other creatives from around the world.
Meg Barbour, NY
Ulrike brings the world of AI design to your fingertips in ONE HOUR in her workshops. She is super passionate and on fire about creating and exploring cutting-edge design solutions. As a fearless leader and pioneer in co-creating AI algorithms and futuristic innovative design, she facilitates workshops where together we create and deliver a brand identity package to attract the right audience -- including a color palette, typeface, logo concept, copywriting, and a website product. A solid design concept in ONE HOUR. Unbelievable! It's so amazing that I encourage you to experience the power of AI with Ulrike. It may change the way you approach design forever.
Antonella S., Sweden
Ulrike is a modern and unafraid creative who loves to share her knowledge and her talents. She's industrious and generous and likes to push the boundaries of tech and art for the benefit of society. She's an asset to any team that wants to try new things and needs speed, agility and courage.