Design for Communities (D4C) is an associated foundation based in Beirut that empowers designers and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to engage in community projects in different countries. The interdisciplinary platform connects architects, landscape and urban designers, planners, environmental, climate, mechanical, and civil engineers through a diverse portfolio of projects operating at the highest levels of innovation in the field. With many partners engaged professionally in practice and/or academia, projects by D4C are informed by considerable resources in research and realized through professional engagement in the field.