Cesar Jung-Harada

Activist, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Idea generator, Inventor, Project manager, Social entrepreneur, Student

MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art; MA Animation Film, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Cesar Jung-Harada is an Associate Professor at the Business, Communication and Design Cluster at SIT. He teaches innovation, design thinking, and social entrepreneurship, and mentors ocean engineering projects. Cesar was educated at the Ecole Boulle in Paris, obtained his first Master's from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Animation Film, and his second Master's degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Arts in London. Cesar was a Researcher and Project Leader at MIT Senseable City Lab in the USA. Cesar was trained in Design Thinking by George Kembel (co-founder of Stanford d-School), Rapid Prototyping by Tom Chi (co-founder of Google X), and entrepreneurship by Daniel Epstein (Forbes: Top 30 Impact Entrepreneurs). Cesar is the Founder and former Director of "MakerBay", a Hong Kong network of innovation centres. Cesar is the Founder and CEO of the ocean robotic startup "Scoutbots" developing ocean sensors and transport technology to explore and protect the oceans, mostly known for the Open Source shape-shifting sailing robot "Protei" which won the StartmeupHK Grand Award. Cesar's work has been exhibited at the V&A in London, at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, and the team Open _Sailing he led won the Ars Electronica Golden Nica with the concept of the "International Ocean Station" in Austria. Cesar is a TED Senior Fellow and his most popular TED talk has more than 1.8 million views, translated into more than thirty languages. Cesar was the opening plenary speaker of the COP21 (2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference) about ocean innovation before French President Hollande, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Jack Ma. Cesar is a Trustee of the Board of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar and the Wyng Foundation in Hong Kong. Cesar's current research includes inclusive ocean innovation, impact invention, social innovation, critical and speculative design, ocean exploration and conservation technologies, and creative community building.

Ocean, Robotics, Architecture, Sciences, People, Arts, Traveling, Learning ...

71% of earth is ocean. Life on earth started in water more than 3.5 billion y ago. 80% of life on earth is in the oceans. The future of energy is at sea, may it be renewable or fossil. In the carbon cycle, we estimate oceans to hold 36,000 gigatonnes of carbon. Over one billion people depend on seafood. But ... Much of all the waste we produce - including nuclear waste - ends up in oceans. It is estimated if we don't stop overfishing now, in 50 years we wont be able to "come back", biodiversity drops... Seafarers and fishermen have the highest occupational mortality rate in the world. Much of the ocean remains unexplored... We invest billions in weapons of mass destruction, in space conquest... Maybe it is also a good idea to invest in what remains of life on our planet, our oceans. We must guarantee not the supremacy of an ideology, an economic model or a country, but for the future of life on earth.

Art, Construction/Design, Design, Design Strategy, martial arts, Ocean, Sailing

In the Autumn 2009, Open_Sailing got invited by the curator Andrea Grover to exhibit at the Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Andrea encouraged me to apply to TED. I knew TED, I never thought I would ever be part of it, too focused on my research at the time. In the winter 2004, a tsunami hit the coasts of the Indian Ocean, devastation, no more drinking water. I had a friend studying in Auroville, she sent an SOS. From Paris, with the help of Mita Radhakrishnan I set up a website to collect funds to buy desalination pumps. In about 10 days we collected enough to provide drinking water to local population. In the year 2008 I was studying and developing the Open_Sailing project under the supervision of Nina Pope at the Royal College of Art, London. Thanks to Andrea, Mita, Nina and all the people working and helping Open_Sailing, I am presenting our project at TED. I hope we will find supporters for the long term development of the International_Ocean_Station.