How do you want to live?

It is a simple question, but one we rarely make time to ask.

Our five-day immersive field school, How to Live — In Practice, creates that time—bringing participants together in Fujino, Japan, to explore how art, ecology, craft, food and everyday practices can help us imagine—and practice—different ways of living.

For centuries, Japan’s relationship with the natural world has shaped its craft, cuisine, agriculture and daily life. Nature is understood not simply as a resource, but as something living, interconnected and worthy of care.
These traditions offer valuable perspectives as questions of sustainability, community and our relationship with the environment become increasingly urgent.

Located about one hour by train from central Tokyo, Fujino is a rural mountain community known for creativity, sustainability and alternative living.
Here, traditional knowledge, agriculture, local economies and contemporary experimentation coexist and continue to evolve.

The field school approaches land not as a backdrop, but as a teacher, collaborator and place of inquiry. Through workshops, site visits, conversations and shared meals, participants learn alongside local artists, farmers, craftspeople, chefs, educators and community leaders.

Making, cooking and cultivation become ways of researching together.

How do we relate to the environments that sustain us? What kinds of community can support regenerative futures? What might another way of living look like in practice?

For five days, Fujino becomes a temporary learning community—a place to slow down, work with your hands, exchange ideas and experience knowledge as something lived.

Registration for the Fall 2026 field school is now open.

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