Vera Sacchetti is a Basel-based design critic and curator. She specializes in contemporary design and architecture and serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles. Recently, she co-founded Fazer, a new design magazine in Portugal, co-initiated the Design & Democracy platform, which maps the intersections and overlaps between design and democratic systems and practices, and co-curated Right here, right now: Bioregional ways and situated practices, the international exhibition of the inaugural Covilhã Design Triennial (2025). She served as program coordinator of the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal (2020–2023), which aimed to support transdisciplinary research on sustainable futures. Sacchetti teaches at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art​, and at Design Academy Eindhoven, and was previously a lecturer at the Space Design/Interior Architecture Department at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO). In 2020, she joined the Swiss Federal Design Commission.