Biography
Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic, curator, and educator. She is lecturer in Design Theory at HSLU Design Film Kunst and a tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Recently, she curated “Earthrise 25: Where to, from Here?” at the Circolo del Design in Turin (2025), and co-curated “Right here, right now: Bioregional ways and situated practices”, at the Covilhã Design Triennial (2025). In 2023, Sacchetti co-founded Fazer, a new design magazine in Portugal. In 2020, she co-established the Design and Democracy platform, which maps the intersections and overlaps between design and democratic systems and practices.
From 2020-2023, she served as program coordinator of the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal (2020-2023), which supports transdisciplinary research on sustainable futures. Sacchetti is a member of the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.
