Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) 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 and Democracy platform (2020–), which maps the intersections and overlaps between design and democratic systems and practices; and 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 teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven, and in 2020 joined the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.
Frederico Duarte (Lisbon, 1979) is a design critic and curator. He has a degree in communication design from FBAUL, an MA in design criticism from SVA and a PhD in curatorial studies from Birkbeck College and Victoria & Albert Museum. He is currently guest assistant professor at FBAUL, communication coordinator of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project at IST’s Interactive Technologies Institute and co-founder of Fazer magazine.