TECH. ARTS. COMMUNITY.
Dielle Coutinho
Manager, Pharma Expert and Dreamer
Dielle Coutinho holds a BPharm+MBA and MPharm (Pharmaceutics) from NMIMS, and an MTech in Software Systems from BITS Pilani. As a software product manager, she blends scientific depth with design thinking to build impactful tech for pharmaceutical scientists. Off-duty - she's a cat lover, sunset chaser, and future optimist.
Challenges
10
Reclaiming the Wild
For this challenge, we had invited the fellows to bring their final projects to life through the powerful mediums of either a short film or a graphic novel. Dielle’s story captures 2050 Mumbai where an ecologist, a developer, and a fisherman reckon with the city’s past mistakes after the devastating floods of 2037. Through memory, loss, and restoration, they trace the journey of reimagining and rebuilding an urban future rooted in nature.
9
For challenge 9, the fellows presented a pitch deck of their visual narratives. These narratives, set in 2050, address a conflict in an ideal future and its resolution. The pitch will serve as a storyboard for the final project, presented as either a short film or graphic novel. Dielle’s project titled Reclaiming the Wild gave an overview of Mumbai’s second life. Its protagonist Anjali sits in a floating classroom in the year 2050. She participates in a rebellion to rebuild Mumbai.
8
Challenge 8 was a fun exercise in which the fellows generated interactive AI personas using the Gooey.AI copilot tool. Dielle’s bot, Mira Maris, is a spirited urban ecologist-turned-educator raised in the last mangrove-lined pocket of Mumbai. She has overseen major rewilding and de-extinction projects, including the restoration of mangroves, native wildlife, and the revival of regionally extinct species.
7
After an engaging workshop with Nina Sabnani, the fellows applied their imagination to craft a narrative using five images that Nina gave as prompts. Dielle’s narrative titled The Buried Truth is a tale about a journalist’s dogged determination to avoid the displacement of rural people from their land.
6
For this challenge, we wanted the fellows to create supporting characters that would inhabit their envisioned future world. Dielle created two supporting characters - a side-kick named Rohan and an antagonist named Janus.Rohan is a 12-year-old student in Mira’s class with insatiable curiosity. Once a bright-eyed urban planner with dreams of building a greener, more sustainable Mumbai, Janus Malhotra now sits at the helm of Malhotra Infrastructure, his family's billion-dollar real estate empire.
5
Fellows developed characters who would live in their imagined future worlds. Dielle developed the character of Mira Maris, a passionate urban ecologist and educator dedicated to Mumbai’s ecosystems. Raised in the city's last mangrove-lined neighborhood, she grew up witnessing rising sea levels and habitat destruction.
4
For this challenge, we wanted fellows to continue building on their explored futures, focusing on world building. We wanted them to visualise it as the opening scene of a sci-fi film, where the focus is on the setting rather than the characters. 5 to 6 frames were created using Gooey's Animation Generator in draft mode (2 FPS). Dielle created a hopeful vision of 2050 that unfolds in stunning 4K/8K UHD. Children play freely in a futuristic Mumbai playground, surrounded by modular structures, vertical gardens, and biophilic designs that blend nature and tech. The scene transitions to a lush, sun-drenched wildlife sanctuary where golden grasslands sway beneath AI-monitored towers amidst misty forests and thriving biodiversity.
3
For this challenge, we had asked the fellows to illustrate their peers’ predictions for the future. Dielle illustrated Anupama's prediction about a self-directed kid's play area, in Mumbai in 2050.
2
We asked the fellows to explore what the future would look like. We also asked them to forecast a series of predictions for the next few years, with a timeline of no more than 25 years ahead. Dielle made the following predictions about the future. By 2050, Mumbai’s coastline has a tsunami barrier with storm surge gates. A sponge city model around the Mithi River supplements storm-water drainage capacity during extreme weather. By 2050, Mumbai’s sweltering summer is made more tolerable by mandatory novel reflective substances(high-albedo paints), vertical green forests on high-rises, and widespread public heat shelters with evaporative cooling. An early warning system and heat action plan is in place for particularly dangerous days.
