The Sasaki Foundation fosters equity and inclusivity by engaging diverse groups and individuals in the design of the environment. We sponsor research and programs that empower communities and strengthen education in design.
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Events
Women in Leadership Happy Hour
August 22, 2024
Celebrate all individuals who identify as women in the design industry! Join the Sasaki Foundation on August 22 on the roof deck at 110 Chauncy Street. This happy hour will be an opportunity for the incredible people in our industries—architecture, interior design, planning and urban design, landscape architecture, civil engineering, real estate, construction, and other adjacent career paths—to come together, support each other, and connect. Enjoy drinks and light appetizers while chatting with incredible individuals who identify as women in the design industry.
What we do
The Sasaki Foundation empowers communities by tackling inequity in design. We work with communities, civic leaders, practitioners, educators, and others to support research and programs that diversify the voices involved in shaping the built environment.
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Research & Grants
Complex challenges—such as climate change adaptation, affordable housing, mobility and transit access, and community building—require interdisciplinary approaches by a diverse set of stakeholders.
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Community Learning
Meaningfully engaging the public in the design process offers the greatest opportunity for success in sustaining communities.
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Design Education
Industries that have a diverse talent pool and an inclusive creative process are the most successful. A thriving design industry needs a pipeline of diverse, talented, and passionate practitioners.
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History
In 2000, the Hideo Sasaki Foundation was established by Sasaki, a multidisciplinary design firm, and included a bequest from the family of Hideo Sasaki, an internationally renowned landscape architect who was admired for his teaching, critical abilities, and multidisciplinary approach to design. Today, the Sasaki Foundation carries forward Hideo Sasaki’s legacy by blurring the boundaries that separate practice and research, academia and industry, the profession and the public to co-create change to shape the built environment.
Hideo Sasaki
1970s