From Farm to Fashion: Sharing experiences of ‘Folkcharm’ A sustainable fashion brand traceable to home grown heritage weaves of Thai rural communities

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Date: 24th March 2023
Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M. (ICT/GMT+0700 Bangkok Time)
Venue: E131 SERD Building, AIT, Thailand
Zoom: Meeting ID: 827 094 8779 ; Passcode: 699 507
The Department of Development and Sustainability is pleased to invite you to the Special Lecture titled From Farm to Fashion: Sharing experiences of Folkcharm’ A sustainable fashion brand traceable to home grown heritage weaves of Thai rural by Khun. Passawee Tapasanan Kodaka
Passawee Tapasanan Kodaka is a social development practitioner turned sustainable fashion entrepreneur. Passawee has obtained a Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology in 2010, with the thesis on ‘social and economic empowerment of home-based women workers in rural Thailand-Case Study OTOP (Silk weaving community)’.
After almost ten years in fields of development, she founded Folkcharm in 2014 to pursue her passion in sustainability, ethical fashion and sustainable consumption with focus on the interrelations of design, heritage crafts, daily aesthetics, community empowerment and nature.
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