Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic, curator, and educator. She specializes in contemporary design and architecture. 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. Sacchetti is lecturer in Design Theory at HSLU Design Film Kunst and a tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven. Since 2020, she is a member of the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.

For the thing Fellowship, she co-curated the Open Call section of the exhibition and contributed an essay to the reader.