TECH. ARTS. COMMUNITY.
Ojasvita Walgad
Technologist, Dancer and Storyteller
Ojasvita Walgad is a Machine Learning Engineer with a deep interest in the intersection of technology, art, and interactive media. With over 5 years of experience in the AI space, she has worked extensively on computer vision applications in the retail and creative industries.She loves telling stories through movement. Sometimes as a Kathak dancer, an origami artist and also through AI algorithms. She is always ready for brainstorming and collaboration when it comes to AI's role in creativity, so if you have any ideas drop her a message.
Challenges
10
JengAI
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. Ojasvita’s story unfolds in JengAI, a smart city designed by Mia to maintain perfect balance. When that order begins to collapse, Mia must decide her next move. Through play, tension, and diverse community voices, JengAI aims to reflect on the perpetual challenge for AI systems to evolve with us.
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. Ojasvita’s project titled JengAI uses Jenga as a central metaphor to capture the delicate balance required in building complex AI systems. The story is set in an AI-driven smart city project.
8
Challenge 8 was a fun exercise in which the fellows generated interactive AI personas using the Gooey.AI copilot tool. Ojasvita’s bot named Mia is the creator of JengAI. JengAI is a dynamic, learning-based AI system designed to optimize urban life through continuous assessment, risk-balancing, and adaptation.
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. In Ojasvita’s story, the protagonist Meera uses her rural roots and engineering skills to create rain-absorbing roads that help cities adapt to climate change.
6
For this challenge, we wanted the fellows to create supporting characters that would inhabit their envisioned future world. Ojasvita created three supporting characters to inhabit her future world. Anirudh Sen is a seasoned urban planner and thoughtful mentor. ARGOS is an AI-driven system hailed for optimizing urban life, which epitomizes smart city efficiency—yet its dominance raises critical questions about control, equity, and the soul of a city. Raj Patel is a passionate young coder and civic tech developer, who believes in ARGOS’s potential but finds himself increasingly drawn to Meera’s human-centered vision.
5
Fellows developed characters who would live in their imagined future worlds. Ojasvita developed the character of Mira Kaul, a sharp-minded ethicist specializing in AI’s impact on urban development. In her late 30s, she has spent years researching the intersection of technology and human-centric design.
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). Ojasvita designed a future city with more community centres, more parks and biophilic designs for micro climate initiatives. She presents a view of a city dominated by lush, expansive parks, weaving through urban spaces. There are wide green corridors connecting neighborhoods, with winding walking paths and dense tree canopies.
3
For this challenge, we had asked the fellows to illustrate their peers’ predictions for the future. Ojasvita illustrated personalized, eco-friendly advertisements that promote ethical branding practices, drawing inspiration from Coca-Cola’s 2011 living billboard in Manila that absorbed air pollution. Her work envisions a future where advances in multilingual AI and ethically designed systems enable culturally sensitive digital collaborations between artists and the world—bridging languages, values, and creative visions.
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. Ojasvita made the following prediction about the future. Social dynamics will change due to rising digital nomadism, people will form phygital communities based on reel interests (AI & Algorithmic Social Bonding).
