TECH. ARTS. COMMUNITY.
Remya Padmadas
Educator, Facilitator and Learning Experience Designer
Remya Padmadas is a learning experience designer at Flow India, with over nine years of work experience across education, media, and technology. With a Master’s in education and a background in journalism and engineering, she brings a transdisciplinary lens to her work, shaped by a passion for learning and a commitment to creating meaningful, inclusive learning experiences.
Challenges
10
The Play Station
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. Remya’s work The Play Station is a hopeful, quiet graphic novel about reclaiming delight, rethinking productivity, and designing for joy in an age of artificial intelligence.
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. Remya’s project titled The Play Station shows an emerging crisis for adults in 2050. It presents a rising loneliness epidemic exacerbated by work pressures and stress.
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Challenge 8 was a fun exercise in which the fellows generated interactive AI personas using the Gooey.AI copilot tool. Remya’s bot Syeda is a master weaver who blends deep traditional knowledge with a sharp awareness of AI’s role in craft. She knows regional weaving techniques, the cultural meaning behind motifs, and how to work with natural dyes and fibers.
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After an engaging workshop with Nina Sabnani, the fellows applied their imagination to craft a narrative using five images that Nina gave as prompts. Remya’s story is a poignant tale of how young Meera finds unexpected comfort and courage in rescuing a frightened puppy, transforming a day of fear into one of quiet connection.
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For this challenge, we wanted the fellows to create supporting characters that would inhabit their envisioned future world. Remya created the supporting character of Razia, Syeda’s 30-year-old granddaughter, who grew up between two worlds—the slow, deliberate craft of handloom weaving and the fast-paced, AI-driven future of the city. Confident and sharp-witted, she wears her heritage with intention—draping herself in a dupatta woven by her grandmother, a quiet rebellion against mass-produced AI fabrics.
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Fellows developed characters who would live in their imagined future worlds. Remya created the character of Syeda, a 68-year-old revolutionary and weaver, who once led the fight for women’s rights to weave in a time when only men controlled the looms. A master of Patola silk weaving, she dedicated five decades to the precision of her art, where every thread carried meaning, history, and identity.
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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).Remya envisioned a futuristic village in Gujarat unfolding at dusk with a neon-lit dome by the river, bustling textile markets blending tradition and tech outside it, and artisans weaving fabric using VR headsets and holographic patterns in a painterly, semi-realistic world.
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For this challenge, we had asked the fellows to illustrate their peers’ predictions for the future. Remya illustrated the prediction that AI-powered training will revolutionize artisan upskilling by offering virtual reality (VR) craft training, in the future. AI-assisted design customization, and automated market insights. AI-driven platforms will teach new techniques, predict trends, and connect artisans with global markets.
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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. Remya made the following predictions about the future. In the next 25 years, AI-driven language models will have progressed to such an extent that language barriers will become a thing of the past. AI will help translate speech in a way that two people who speak different languages will be able to have a seamless real-time conversation. Everyone in the world will speak one language, their own. In the future, food may become a precise science rather than a daily ritual or a gastronomic experience. Wearable biosensors will track nutrient levels, and personalized pills will deliver exact calories, vitamins, and minerals that the body needs, thus preventing deficiencies. The wealthy will therefore be able to access AI-driven health optimization, widening the health gap. Eating for pleasure may become a status symbol.
