Summary
Cesar Harada is a Franco-Japanese designer, educator and environmental entrepreneur with a decade of professional experience centered on open hardware, ocean innovation and community-driven climate action. Based in Singapore, he founded MakerBay and Open-Sailing/Protei to develop open-source robotic sailing platforms for ocean sensing and cleanup, and has led interdisciplinary teaching roles at institutions like Singapore Institute of Technology and HKU. He currently coordinates Climate Data Safe, building community and tools to make verified, open climate data useful for decision-making, while volunteering on long-term experiments in Smart Offshore Ecosystems with The Indigo Civilization. Cesar blends hands-on prototyping, large-scale project vision and fundraising experience—having mobilized rapid tsunami relief and led residencies at MIT and Autodesk—so his work sits at the intersection of design, research and operational deployment. Not obvious from titles alone, he pairs performance and art practice with technical invention, using storytelling and exhibitions to prototype social adoption of environmental technologies.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
exchange Graphic Design Audiovisuals, exchange Graphic Design Audiovisuals at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Master Arts & Design Animation Film, Master Arts & Design Animation Film at ENSAD Ecole Nationale supèrieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
Bacclaurate Applied arts crafts, Bacclaurate Applied arts crafts at École Boulle
Certificate Metaverse, Certificate Metaverse at Blockchain Council
Exchange Student Product Design Boat Carpentry, Exchange Student Product Design Boat Carpentry at ENSCI-Les Ateliers
MA New Medias Contemporary arts, MA New Medias Contemporary arts at Université Paris 8
MA Design Interactions, MA Design Interactions at Royal College of Art
English, French, Japanese, Spanish