May 16, 2022

The Sasaki Foundation announced today the finalists for its fourth annual Sasaki Foundation Design Grants program. These seven teams will pitch to a panel of judges on Wednesday, May 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the new Lamplighter CX location. The Design Grants are an annual competition to showcase projects that support and drive interdisciplinary innovation and empower our local communities.

February 8, 2022

Today, the Sasaki Foundation announces our 2022 Design Grants call for proposals. The Design Grants are an annual program seeking interdisciplinary, creative approaches to test new design concepts in communities in Greater Boston, the Gateway Cities, and Metro West. Since 2018, the Sasaki Foundation has received 52 applications representing more than 70 communities, and has awarded more than $170,000 through the program. Read more about our most recent grant winners here.

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October 18, 2021

Check out our newly released 2020-2021 Design Grants Research Report to learn more about our third cohort’s work, offering innovative solutions to address gender inequities, economic mobility, and displacement, with an ongoing impact in Greater Boston and beyond. The report also highlights updates from our Design Grants alumni along with the latest on the Mobility Innovator, a year-long initiative in 2020, funded by the Barr Foundation and in partnership with Sasaki, that addresses mobility challenges in the Boston region through the lenses of resiliency and equity.

September 15, 2020

This week, the Sasaki Foundation published a report with compelling research from the 2019-2020 cohort of the Sasaki Foundation Design Grants, summarizing three innovative and impactful community-based projects. The projects address a range of challenges, from improving emergency homeless shelters, to exploring methods to increase energy resilience, to tackling gentrification in Boston’s Chinatown. The report also includes research from the two Sasaki Foundation Community Grants teams, who participated alongside the research cohort in the Incubator at Sasaki.

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The Boston Children’s Museum envisions Construction Zone 2.0 being a space that encourages children to “Dream, Design, and Build” while providing representation from all the different construction careers. YouthBuild Boston gave the high school students a lesson about the construction process to help them understand the steps. Students then started brainstorming ideas on how to adapt those steps to child-friendly activities. 

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Sketching session at a Boston Children's Museum design education event on April 20, 2024

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Students and mentors discuss ideas in front of the Construction Zone exhibit model

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Mentors from the Boston Society for Architecture, Wolfworks, STUDIO ENÉE, STA Design, WSP, Robert Olson + Associates Architects, ARUP, Commodore Builders, CannonDesign, Eponymous Practice, Margulies Perruzzi, Zephyr Architects, and the Boston Planning and Development Agency came together to assist the youth in thinking of what activities would best engage children in the construction process. 

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It was impressive what the students were able to imagine in only a few hours! Their ideas ranged from touch walls where children could feel all textures of different materials, to an excavator area, dress-up stations, tool stations, and building activities. The museum was thrilled to see the creativity and ingenious ideas the students were able to model and were excited to have received such a good amount of feedback. 

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Model of student ideas for the Boston Children's Museum Construction Zone 2.0 exhibit

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It was incredibly rewarding introducing youth to design while at the same time envisioning the future of the Construction Zone through a youth perspective. The Sasaki Foundation is thankful for the impactful collaboration between our organizations, and we look forward to continuing our partnerships this summer. 

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On April 20, 2024, the Sasaki Foundation and YouthBuild Boston collaborated with Boston Children’s Museum on a youth design exploration workshop. This event introduced high school students to design while providing the museum with youth feedback on what a reimagined Construction Zone exhibit could look like.

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The Boston Children’s Museum envisions Construction Zone 2.0 being a space that encourages children to “Dream, Design, and Build” while providing representation from all the different construction careers. YouthBuild Boston gave the high school students a lesson about the construction process to help them understand the steps. Students then started brainstorming ideas on how to adapt those steps to child-friendly activities. 

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Sketching session at a Boston Children's Museum design education event on April 20, 2024

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Students and mentors discuss ideas in front of the Construction Zone exhibit model

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Mentors from the Boston Society for Architecture, Wolfworks, STUDIO ENÉE, STA Design, WSP, Robert Olson + Associates Architects, ARUP, Commodore Builders, CannonDesign, Eponymous Practice, Margulies Perruzzi, Zephyr Architects, and the Boston Planning and Development Agency came together to assist the youth in thinking of what activities would best engage children in the construction process. 

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It was impressive what the students were able to imagine in only a few hours! Their ideas ranged from touch walls where children could feel all textures of different materials, to an excavator area, dress-up stations, tool stations, and building activities. The museum was thrilled to see the creativity and ingenious ideas the students were able to model and were excited to have received such a good amount of feedback. 

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Model of student ideas for the Boston Children's Museum Construction Zone 2.0 exhibit

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It was incredibly rewarding introducing youth to design while at the same time envisioning the future of the Construction Zone through a youth perspective. The Sasaki Foundation is thankful for the impactful collaboration between our organizations, and we look forward to continuing our partnerships this summer. 

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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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June 6, 2024

Join us to hear Sasaki Foundation Design Grants finalists pitch their ideas for projects that address creative community building, new models for housing, innovation in transit and access to mobility choices, innovation in health and wellbeing, and proactive approaches to climate adaptation.

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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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.

3

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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.

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

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