Marquise Stillwell is a designer and a catalyst for building communities and products across design, art, and culture. Over the two decades of his career, his curiosity for people and spaces has developed into a passion for designing systems to make environments better for all people.
Having founded Openbox in 2009, Stillwell co-founded Opendox within it, a film company that tells lesser-known narratives around art, science, nature, and politics. Stillwell has executive produced “The New Bauhaus” and most recently co-directed “This World Is Not My Own,” which premiered at SXSW and Hot Docs. He has also co-founded Deem Journal, a biannual print journal and online platform focused on design as social practice, and Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities. Most recently, he acquired Stae, a go-to open-source data hub that allows people to visualize and leverage open city data in a meaningful way.
Additionally, Stillwell serves as a board member for the Center for Architecture and the Public Housing Community Fund as well as on advisory boards for Creative Capital, Riverkeeper, and Black Girls Shred. He is also a member of the High Line Advisory Committee, a fellow at Urban Design Forum, and was a Founding Board Member and Co-Chair at The Lowline, the first underground park.