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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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Boston !

First day in Cambridge (Boston). Feels good, natural, like it should be.


My room is tiny and nice. I just made a deep clean of my room and the kitchen - living room.

My flatmates are lovely, I'm a bit too shy to take a picture of them yet. Nice light everywhere. 

There's a true princess cat. I live in a really clever strategical place : On Cambridge street, 1 minute from Lechmere (MBTA station) , 5 minutes walk to MIT where I work, 10 minutes cycle to Harvard where I might take some classes, 10 minutes away Boston downtown, crossing the bridge. I'm so close to the ocean, I will try to go to swim as soon as I can! There are sailing journeys between Boston and Europe, I might do one day (not at that price of course!). I live in a quite old building on a big avenue, easy to find, it looks and feels like Europe here. 5 minutes away from the house a gigantic supermarket Shaws open until midnight everyday!!! Everything feels expensive after Kenya. 

I am allowed to carry a swiss knife (Leatherman Wave), I dreamt about it since I was a teenager, now I have it! 
The big DIY shop Home Depot is 20 minutes away cycling, it opens at 6:00AM and closes at 22:00!!! Havent found the bike shop nor the bank yet, this afternoon duty. 

My flatmate Diego took me to MITERS today, amazing !!! 

This is the right place for me now. I'm feeling really happy to be here ;) Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

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