Vera Sacchetti

Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic and curator. She serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles, most recently as program coordinator for the multidisciplinary research initiative »Driving the Human« (2020-2023) and curator of the initial edition of architecture festival Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse (2021). She is co-curator of TEOK Basel and one half of the curatorial initiative Foreign Legion. Sacchetti was associate curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, »A School of Schools«, curatorial advisor for the BIO 50 Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and, as part of editorial consultancy Superscript, headed the »Towards a New Avant-Garde« event series at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has recently edited »Design as a Tool for Transition: The Atelier Luma Approach«; and »Design As Learning: A School of Schools Reader«. Her writing has appeared in »Disegno«, »Metropolis«, and »The Avery Review«, among others. Sacchetti teaches at ETH Zurich and HEAD Geneva, and in 2020 joined the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.