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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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MIT first day

Today, first day felt like paradise. After the impressive entrance, I discovered my Lab, the Senseable city lab was just right below the dome, amazing!
 
As you walk in you pass memorials of famous alumnis, here Norbert Wiener one of my idols, the father of cybernetics.
 
And some rooms full of exotic complex machineries...

Even the ice cream vending machine are from the future!

MIT has loads of crazy architecture and sculptures everywhere

You can also pass people with a strange attitude :) : these guys were staaaatic....

I was lucky to be taken on a tour immediately!
 
Sol Lewit floorwork. Pretty amazing. 
 
The swimming pool opens at 5AM and closes at 11PM, and the best about it : it is FREE !!! + they prepare your towel! I told you, heaven!
 
The Senseable city Lab, my department, tiny but great. Aaaahh, I love this place!

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May 22, 2010
 said...
aaahh soo coool! so the Senseable city lab is in the architecture/planning building and not the media lab? I want to visit! I think I will apply to SAP in the fall for sure
May 22, 2010
Cesar Harada said...
Yep, it is not the media lab, and apparently it is a big deal! Myself I really thought it was in the media lab, so the first day, I went to media lab, they redirected me to the dome! This place is sooooo good!
May 22, 2010
crazypulsar said...
Follow your tour !! Same excited ! I want visite the heaven one day :D !!!!!!
May 23, 2010
amelie said...
cool! good luck ;-)

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