Vera was born in Lisbon, Portugal, where she got her BA in Communication Design and studied Contemporary Culture and Post-Colonialism. While at it, she also got to teach young kids about design in a summer school, went to Helsinki to study “Design Thinking” – a term she now questions -, lived and studied in Rotterdam for six months in a student exchange program, traveled throughout Europe and the US, and got her first insights on critical thinking.

She then worked on wayfinding, exhibition and editorial projects at award-winning studio P-06 atelier, and after a couple of years experienced an epiphany while navigating the D-Crit website, unabashedly deciding on the spot what she would be doing next.

Vera is now a Fulbright scholar and a second year at D-Crit, where she is currently intrigued about design and social change, and is researching the discourse used in the field for her thesis project.

She has a limited attention span, will dance to funk and usually bakes for people she likes.

• Email
  vsacchetti@sva.edu
• Hometown
  Lisbon, Portugal
• twitter @verasacchetti