The Future of Collaborative Design Pre-convening
September 30, 2025 @ 6:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Gund Hall @ Harvard Graduate School of Design: 48 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138 Get Directions
Explore the future of Hideo Sasaki's legacy of collaborative design.
Explore Hideo Sasaki’s influence on post-war American landscape architecture and his pivotal role in shaping an integrated, multidisciplinary design education at the Harvard GSD—alongside his founding of a firm that embodied this approach. We’ll examine how landscape architecture, architecture, and planning came together in practice, advancing a model of collaborative design. Looking at the intersection of past, present, and future, we’ll reflect on the radical nature of Hideo’s ideas in his time and consider how our understanding of collaborative practice has evolved. What does radical collaboration mean today—for us and for the next generation of designers?
Don't forget to get your tickets to the full-day symposium on Friday, October 3!
1.5 HSW CEUs available through LACES and anticipated through AIA
This event will also be available as a livestream (no CEUs). Register to receive the link the day before the event.
SCHEDULE
5:45 p.m. NETWORKING
6:30 p.m. WELCOME
6:35 p.m. HIDEO SASAKI'S LEGACY OF COLLABORATIVE DESIGN AT THE GSD AND BEYOND
- Keynote speaker Gary Hilderbrand is a founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A celebrated teacher and prolific writer as well as a designer, Gary brings a passion for landscape architecture’s history and its future potential everywhere he works.
6:50 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION
- Stephen Gray, Grayscale Collaborative and Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Thaïsa Way, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections
- Tao Zhang, Sasaki
- Mary Anne Ocampo, Sasaki (moderator)
7:30 p.m. Q&A
7:45 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Thank you to our in-kind sponsors supporting our event experience: Arielly Photography