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 Awamaki's artisans 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

Your fellow cohort members

  • Brigitte Carrollo

    Innovation Senior Specialist at Inter-American Development Bank

  • Masha Safina

    Design Director at Accenture Song

  • Diego Valdeiglesias Núñez

    Co-founder of PUCA

  • Aurelia Alvarado

    Managing Director of IDEO's La Victoria Lab

  • L'Rai Arthur-Mensah

    Executive Director of Local Projects

  • Conor McFerran

    Co-Founder of Lift Collective

  • Sara Tashakorinia

    Principal Product Strategy, Al and Machine Learning at Lucid Motors

  • Stephanie Smith

    Design Director at Thrivent

  • Joanne Mendel

    Service Design Researcher & Strategist

  • Tony Bynum

    Director of Executive Academy at the Institute of Design

  • Amanda Kaletta-Kott

    UX leader at ZS

  • Nabila Nowrin

    Designer entrepreneur reimagining space, products, and industries

  • Verónica Valderrama

    People Transformation Lead for the Americas Region at Gold Fields

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.

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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 Partner

    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.

  • GRACIA CHAMOCHUMBI

    Empathy Partner and Innovation Strategy Director

    With more than ten years of experience creating and implementing strategies that drive growth and innovation in medium- and large-sized companies in Peru and Latin America, Gracia understands our current business landscape and the necessary skills to navigate transformation. Her vision is to contribute to a more sustainable, inclusive, and humane world.

  • DYLAN CHANDLER

    Immersion Photographer + Videographer

    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.