Imagining future universities with Midjourney images

What might future campuses look like?

I’ve been using AI art programs for a while, getting to generate images for classes, presentations, social media, and entertainment. The nexus of automation and creativity is something I’ve been brooding about for years. But today, as the weekend draws night, I wanted to share some recent results in imagining campuses to be.

For this post I’m using Midjourney. I’ve been playing with others as well.

We started off with a very generic “imagine the future of higher education”:

Interesting to see the results. Books (top left) are a classic association. Greek columns (top right), too, for a certain way of imagining higher ed. The triangle or pyramid… not sure what to do with that.

The clouds seen from above also mystified me, until SFF Audio wrangler Jessie offered this analysis:

Jessie then added: