Priorities

Making meaningful and lasting change requires designers to blur the boundaries that separate practice and research, academia and industry, the profession and the public. Making change requires designers to embrace vastly different points of view. Above all, making change requires collective impact. At the intersection of research, practice, and community, the Sasaki Foundation is committed to advancing the value of design, inviting diverse partners to co-create change.

The Sasaki Foundation’s strategic objectives translate its vision into a more focused, actionable set of outcomes. We focus on the following three key priority areas: research and grants, community learning, and design education.

Our intent is to test new models and projects that can work within communities and then scale to other communities with similar characteristics. Our research agendas, public programming approaches, and design education objectives are all developed through the lens of equity in design.