Creating the environment for discoveries to happen, with César Jung-Harada

Imagination State

César Jung-Harada has a wildly adventurous life: He’s a justice-oriented philosopher-inventor traversing the world’s oceans to help humanity adapt to climate change. He has built oil-spill robots, shape-shifting boats, floating cities, and hydrogen devices. The inventions range in technology and scale, but the heart and soul remains the same. César uses imagination and inclusion to scaffold all he does, believing that children, students, refugees, artists, and local “non-experts” belong at the design table and have contributions that are just as - if not more - valuable than those more credentialed.

Listen to hear César talk about everything from equality and inclusion, to animism and Shintoism, to “returning to the animal” that we are.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Studio Ghibli exhibit
• César Jung Harada: An Ocean City Reimagined exhibit
• Balon Balon Ijo, Floating Solar Hydrogen
• Protei, Shape-Shifting Sailing Robot
• “Coralbot” Coral Reef Mapping Robot
• Oyster Hatchery "Floating Marine Laboratory"
• Ocean Imagineer. Floating solar hydrogen pilot plant
• Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark
• Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method

César‘s invitation, from his mother’s wisdom:

To return to the animal that you are, you need to forget. How much can you forget? Can you let go of your name, material attachments, problems and worries? Humans can experience so much unnecessary suffering, but if you can forget, you get closer to experiencing the simplicity of being an animal among animals.

Ideas? Visions? Imaginaries? Email [email protected].

This episode was edited by Angela Ohlfest, typographer from Simon Walker, music from Cosmo Sheldrake.