Our family

Kasama Yamtree

Manager & Senior (Community) Architect

I like working to encourage people to realise their own freedom to live in the way they want, and find ways to reach a compromise with other stakeholders for a sustainable living. I also like seeing the people I work with achieve their life’s potential, and believe that they can make any change they want.

At Openspace, we are friends, a family—sisters and brothers, all of us willing to share both our work and our lives. Throughout our community architecture and development projects, I have had the chance to understand more about myself, other human beings, and other living things in nature.

Yoswadee Sonthichai 

Project Coordinator / Community Networker

I love talking to people and hearing their opinions; I love that this dialogue leads to progress and an evolution of the project. I lead my life through these lessons and by deliberating the different attitudes of the people I meet; this line of work allows me the opportunity for great personal development. .

Nausica Castanas

Lead Researcher / Communications Manager

I love being exposed to different cultures and ways of life. Through this work, I get the chance to collaborate with communities across Thailand in a fully immersive way, through participatory processes. My job has taught me to shed any preconceptions about what communities should be like, fully appreciate the unique conditions of each area, deal with the specific obstacles people face, and recognise the distinctive strengths of each community.

Chattarin Panyaphuntraku

(Community) Architect

Through my job, I get chance to work with communities. This makes me love to learn from what I do and from all people I meet. I strive to create design that are useful to as many people as possible within the community.

Prakit Pawaputo

(Community) Designer

I am interested in learning about people, and then creating something useful with a focus on people. I am generally not a talkative person but I am always happy discussing with people in the communities that I work with. I feel greatly inspired.

Kanhatai Punyadee

(Community) Designer

Working as a community designer allows for my work to be centered on people. I studied architecture but I am not interested in just designing a building. I want the work that I do to help people communicate better, and improve their understanding of one another through the design process.

Kaiwan Yamtree

Admin & HR  

I am not architect but I am really interested in working with communities. It has changed the way I see the world.