Vera Sacchetti

Vera Sacchetti (1983) is a design writer and critic, currently based in Basel, Switzerland. She is co-curator of TEOK Basel, managing editor at the Barragan Foundation and co-founder of editorial consultancy Superscript. Originally trained as a communication designer, Vera attended SVA’s MFA in Design Criticism as a Fulbright scholar, graduating with a masters thesis on contemporary social design in the US. She was formerly curatorial advisor for the BIO 50 design biennial in Ljubljana, web editor at Domus, co-editor of "The Adhocracy Reader" for the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, and served as head of international communications at EXD’11/LISBOA. With Superscript, she headed the "Towards a New Avant-Garde" event series at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her writing has appeared in Domus, Disegno, Change Observer, The New City Reader and Frame, among others.