Seamus Yu Harte Email and Phone Number

Seamus Yu Harte is the the Head of Learning Experience Design for the Electives Program at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school) and the founder of Only People, a learning experience design studio based inspired by the art & activism of John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Prior to Stanford d.school & Only People, Seamus was the Senior Producer for The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, Learning Experience Designer at Digital Media Academy and Creative Director and Director of Radical Experiments at Nearpod. Project-based learning & radical collaboration have been at the core of Seamus’ entire career. His work at the Stanford d.school includes overseeing the design, development and delivery of over 30 elective courses at the Stanford d.school every academic year—all project-based, team taught, radical collaborations that amounts to over 1,000 Stanford students and nearly 150 Faculty & Lectures in the d.school teaching community. He currently co-teaches a course titled: How to Shoot for the Moon, a radical collaboration between the Stanford d.school, described as a “kaleidoscope of curriculum inspired by the science and art of space exploration to help students discover who they are, why they’re here, where they want go and how to experiment towards getting there.”From Yoko Ono to David Kelley, Seamus has had the opportunity to teach and learn with world-class creatives. He holds a BS in Sound Design from SAE and a MFA in Documentary Film + Video from Stanford University where he also received Fellowships from The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCA) and The San Francisco Foundation.