Project Team
Gary Hustwit
Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York. With his company, Film First, he has produced 13 feature documentaries. Gary’s films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the South by Southwest Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among others.
Film Director and Producer
Rick Valicenti
Rick Valicenti was the Founder and Design Director of Thirst, a venerable Chicago design studio. He is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Artists Medal (2006), the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (2011), and an invited member of Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Book Designer and Film Advisor
Ashley Lukasik
Ashley Lukasik designs immersive experiences around the world to surface emerging economic and social models. She developed Murmur Ring’s bespoke immersion model while working with Patrick Whitney at IIT Institute of Design and co-produced The New Bauhaus (2019) feature documentary.
Executive Producer