Topic: Reverse Engineering with AI
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 13:00 – 18:00 GMT
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 1 Session (5 Hours)
Registration Deadline: March 20th, 2026
Total Seats: 50 seats
Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate
Language: English
Certificate: Yes
General Registration: 50 EUR
Join free: with Full Access membership
Fee For Digital Members: 42.5 EUR (15% discount available only for Digital Members)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
Tutor: Michael Holze, Christopher Noelle
Recordings: Recordings will be available for all participants afterward indefinitely.
Introduction to Reverse Engineering with AI:
We see stunning designs created with AI every day, but how do we turn them into our own visual language and stand out from the masses?
In this workshop, we focus on connected AI workflows that move seamlessly from one tool to the next, showing you how to build a personal, flexible pipeline instead of relying on isolated prompts. Using a single AI-generated image as a starting point, we rewind the process: breaking it down, analyzing it, and reconstructing it step by step through an intensive, hands-on AI case study.
This “Reverse Thinking” approach takes the final image back to its possible origins, revealing new directions, alternative ideas, and creative decisions along the way. You’ll learn how to extract meaningful steps that go far beyond prompting, and how to chain different AIs together to develop a complete project and even an entire portfolio from one idea.
Along the way, we introduce new features and unconventional workflows not only from the usual AI tools, but also from emerging platforms and hybrid techniques that can become highly relevant for your next project. The focus is not on a single platform but on creating a connected workflow and placing human vision at the center of the process.
Methodology:
From the first idea to moods, sketches, renderings, 3D models, 3D printing, animations, and finally a polished showreel, this workshop guides you through the entire creative pipeline using a hands-on case study. We share the complete workflow we’ve developed to create a project from scratch to finish, making every step transparent and applicable to your own work.
We combine a range of AI tools, including Krea (Nodes & Realtime Editor), Formas (rendering styles, Freeform Studio, and 3D modeling), Midjourney, Morphic, and Lumalabs for animation, alongside Rhino for 3D conversion and optimization, and Autodesk tools for simulation and performance testing. Together, these form a cross-media workflow that bridges concept, design, and production.
For us, it’s not about mastering a single AI. It’s about understanding how tools connect, how workflows evolve, and how human vision and authorship remain at the center of the process, guiding the machine rather than being led by it.
Key Learning Topics:
- Build connected AI workflows using Krea Nodes & Realtime Editor
- Reverse-engineer images using ChatGPT / Copilot as analytical design tools
- Create context boards, styles, and timelapse visuals with Formas
- Generate, refine, and train visual assets using Midjourney
- Turn AI images into clean, editable 3D models in Rhino
- Expand designs through parametric thinking, simulations, and optimization
- Develop animations and visual narratives with Morphic & Lumalabs
- Enhance and adapt visuals using Adobe Photoshop with AI
Program:
- Introduction to the workshop concept and the “Reverse Thinking” approach
- Analysis of a single AI-generated image as the starting point
- Reverse-engineering the image back to moods, sketches, and ideas
- Creating visual content using connected AI tools (image, video, and animation)
- Expansion into parametric design, simulations, and technical refinement
- Creation of animations and motion sequences with different camera movements
- Compilation of results into a final presentation, showreel, or project output
Software:
- Rhino
- Midjourney Standard Subscription required
- Krea AI
- Luma AI
- Formas AI
- Morphic
Workshop Notes:
- Software Installation is NOT a part of the workshop! Students must have all the software installed before starting the workshop.
Instructor:
Michael Holze
Michael Holze is an architect and head of Architecture at Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Since the early 1990s, Professor Michael Holze has been a leading pioneer in the architectural landscape, known for his innovative design and forward-thinking approach. Over his three-decade career, he has made significant contributions to the field, combining functionality with artistic vision.
As a professor, he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience, inspiring the next generation of architects to think creatively and responsibly about the built environment in which we live. Specialized in working with: Autodesk, Rhino, Stable Diffusion, ArchiCad, Midjourney, Adobe CS
Christopher Noelle
Chris is a pioneering XR artist who has been shaping the digital art landscape since the mid-1990s. With more than 25 years of experience as a visual artist, he has consistently pushed the boundaries of immersive technology, combining projection art and analog techniques with innovation to create captivating cross-media reality experiences.
His work, which is based on a deep understanding of both the digital and physical worlds, inspires and redefines what is possible in the field of creative thinking by using cross-media art in diverse directions. From motion graphics to architecture, to street art, to lightpaintingphotography over to animation, film, and VFX, to mapping projection, to AI art, to audiovisualworks and sounddesign, to illustration and graphic design- for him, it´s a full circle. Specialized in working with: Krea, Midjourney, Adobe CS, Formas, Google AI Studio, LumalabsMorphic, Axidraw Penplotter, Udio, and Ableton.
Important Notes:
- The “Reverse Engineering with AI” Studio workshop by PAACADEMY will start at 13:00 (GMT) on Saturday, March 21st, 2026.
- Total sessions: 1 Session (5 Hours).
- The teaching duration per session will be 5 hours.
- Students will have time for a break between teaching hours.
- The workshop will be recorded, and videos will be available for participants just a day after the class for an unlimited time.
- PAACADEMY will provide a certificate of attendance.
- The studio has limited seats. Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable. Please read carefully before you register.
Topic: Reverse Engineering with AI
Date: March 21, 2026
Time: 13:00 – 18:00 GMT
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 1 Session (5 Hours)
Registration Deadline: March 20th, 2026
Total Seats: 50 seats
Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate
Language: English
Certificate: Yes
General Registration: 50 EUR
Join free: with Full Access membership
Fee for Digital Members: 42.5 EUR (15% discount available only for Digital Members)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
Tutor: Michael Holze, Christopher Noelle
Recordings: Recordings will be available for all participants afterward indefinitely.
