RECLAIMING VALUE:
SACRED VALLEY DESIGN IMMERSION

Peru | June 23-27, 2025

In partnership with the Institute of Design and Empathy, Murmur Ring has curated a four-day immersion in Peru’s Sacred Valley.

 

A meaningful alternative to conferences, retreats, and offsites, the Reclaiming Value immersion is your chance to exchange ideas, reflections, and best practices with a global cohort of designers in the real world.

 

  • Explore design implications in a region undergoing rapid change and apply learnings to your practice

  • Experience a walking tutorial of native edible species with MIL

  • Meet artists and craftsman preserving traditional techniques as a path toward a substantive future

  • Learn how VIDAWASI Perú is decentralizing healthcare access via a state of the art healthcare facility in the heart of the Sacred Valley

  • Revel in boutique hospitality spaces at Tierra Viva

  • Connect our consumption to the Earth with our food and beverage partners

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What you’ll gain

  • Participants will find inspiration at the confluence of traditional and contemporary practices while collectively considering pathways to sustained growth that benefit the region and preserve its resources.

  • A meaningful alternative to standard conferences and retreats, this immersion is an opportunity to exchange ideas, reflections, and best practices with a global cohort of design leaders in the real world.

  • We will use nature as a teacher, connecting biological systems to our human-designed platforms, setting the foundation for a sustainable future in our communities and personal practices.

“This immersion changed how I travel and experience new places. I now know the difference between going somewhere and being immersed in a place.”

— Mike Sales, Duke Energy Corporation Design Strategist

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“In such a digitally connected world, there is a deep need to experience things in real life—to touch things, see things, and exchange ideas in the tangible world.”

— Cybelle Jones, Society for Experiential Design CEO

Our Team

  • ASHLEY LUKASIK

    Murmur Ring CEO, Co-Host

    Ashley’s passion is creating the conditions for collective creativity. She founded Murmur Ring to curate powerful experiences to help organizations accomplish their strategic aims. Having built her career exposing organizations to human-centered design as a means to respond to complex challenges for which they do not have a preexisting roadmap, she is the co-producer of the acclaimed feature documentary The New Bauhaus.

  • RODRIGO ISASI

    Empathy Managing Partner, Co-Host

    Rodrigo builds sustainable businesses through people-driven culture and innovation. He believes that leadership is the central catalyst for corporate transformation. This belief led him to Delosi, largest restaurant company in the country, where he served as the CEO leading a transformational recovery post-Covid. A graduate of the Institute of Design (MDM ‘13), Rodrigo is committed to catalyzing the impact of good businesses in society, through Empathy an impact-driven international design firm.

  • ANIJO MATHEW

    Dean and a Professor at the Institute of Design

    In his role at ID, Anijo is focused on entrepreneurship and urban technology. His research evaluates new models of innovation enabled by technology and media convergence through the lenses of design fiction, design-led innovation, and entrepreneurship. He works with global organizations to adapt and change strategic responses to transforming technologies.

  • MARTÍN ZABALETA

    Empathy Managing

    Martín is a leader specializing in design, innovation, and strategy with more than 20 years of experience supporting global brands, startups, and the public sector in strategic innovation projects using people-centered design methodologies. He has held leadership positions at IDEO, Fjord, and INSITUM, and he is currently the Managing and Partner Director at Empathy La. Martín holds a Master of Design (MDes) degree from the Institute of Design (IIT) in Chicago.

  • MARIELA SOTOMAYOR

    Social Impact Designer

    Mariela currently serves as the Senior Director of Design at Loadsmart, a startup revolutionizing the logistics industry. A current Institute of Design PhD student, Mariela’s approach to design as a dynamic capability highlights the potential for organizations to navigate economic complexity and drive business innovation through a modern organizational model that recognizes the importance of design in bridging the gap between economic and social dimensions.

  • MILOVAN RADOVIC

    Narrative Designer

    As an Advertising Director, Milo seeks to design stories that excite the human condition and generate pieces that people want to share. Currently a traveling member of John Doe Global; partner of Lucha Start Up Studio; Narrative Designer at The Kubricks; founding partner of La Peruvian Film Machin (Madrid); and an MIT student; Milo is launching IMAGINE - a platform that uses marketing and advertising tools for the service of sustainable transformation and social impact.

  • DYLAN CHANDLER

    Photographer

    Dylan Chandler is an architectural photographer, specializing in interiors and in situ documentary. His book Bricks and Brownstone (Rizzoli, 2019) is lauded by photographers and architects worldwide. His clients include West Elm, Crosby Studios, Aimée Wilder, Pottery Barn and West Chin Architects. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens.