- “Workspace for Wellbeing as a Business Strategy” Talk
Yoko Kawai of Mirai Work Space discussed the importance of workspace for well-being as a business strategy at the webinar hosted by the Japanese MBA Group in NY (New York MBA-no-kai). We thank you all who attended the event! Yoko conveyed four messages to the eager audience; 1) Investing on the employee well-being is a…
- “Mindfulness and Space” Paper Presented at ACSF
It was my honor to present my paper “Missing Links in Designing Space for Mindfulness in Secular & Communal Settings” at the Architecture, Culture, Spirituality Forum (ACSF) Symposium this month. My paper cries for the urgent and deeper involvement of architecture in supporting mindfulness. It identifies missing links on the path between mindfulness and space…
- Epilogue to the Human-centric Work Environment Series
This is our final and 24th article on the Human-centric Work Environment series. Thank you so much for continuously reading this series for over a year. We felt your presence and attention, which encouraged us to keep writing. We’d like to look back on the narrative we generated, evaluate the current status of the Human-centric…
- Freedom to Connect: Human-Centric Workplace Ecosystem in Cities and Regions – Part 4
In this article, we will discuss how our new connections, made under Freedom to Connect, are larger, mobile, and more personally tailored than before. With these characteristics, they will enrich the lives people create (Freedom to Create), enliven the places people choose to live and work (Freedom to Choose), and support and develop businesses. Yoko’s…