MIRAI WORK SPACE
ABOUT US
MIRAI WORK SPACE is a business alliance which MG ARCHITECTS NYC, PLLC and PENGUIN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN L.L.C founded. Yoko Kawai, PhD. takes the lead to establish MIRAI’s concepts.
Yoko Kawai, PhD.
Yoko Kawai’s mission is to create “space for well-being” by utilizing Japanese spatial concepts. By being rooted in the ephemeral relationship between space/nature and human beings, these concepts potentially contribute to healthy minds and bodies of people worldwide. She advocates this value of Japanese concepts through research, education, and practice. As a member of IWBI’s Task Force on COVID-19, she contributed significantly to the mind and movement sections.
Yoko is principal of Penguin Environmental Design in Connecticut, which focuses on incorporating landscape into architecture. In 2016, Yoko co-founded Mirai Work Space Alliance in New York. There, she and her colleagues bring “Space for Well-Being” to contemporary workplaces.
Yoko has been a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture since 2010. Her research encompasses Japanese spatial concepts, space for well-being, and ICT influence on cities and architecture. She currently focuses on spatial interventions to increase mindfulness at work. Her recent publication includes “Blurring the self/space boundary to increase mindfulness: perspectives from Japanese architectural philosophy, neuroscience and psychology” (Kawai, Dufanny & Garrison, 2018).
Yoko received a B.Eng. in Architecture from Kyoto University, an M.Arch. in Urban Design from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Kobe University.
MG ARCHITECTS NYC, PLLC
(www.mgarchitects-ny.com)
MG ARCHITECTS NYC PLLC is a New York-based Multi-disciplinary architectural design firm serving the New York area and overseas. Its extensive experiences have allowed it to offer Ecofriendly, LEED (Leadership Energy and Environmental Design), and sustainable distinctive design solutions to a great variety of challenging programs and requirements.
PENGUIN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN L.L.C.
(www.pedarch.com)
PENGUIN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (PED) is a professional landscape and architectural design firm with unique design philosophy of the outside in. PED provides MIRAl the expertise in landscape architecture and the latest knowledge on space for well-being and mindfulness.
