Elio
Caccavale
Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation
School of Innovation and Technology
biography
Professor Elio Caccavale’s teaching practice, scholarship, and research contribute to the ethical, social, and environmental dimensions of scientific knowledge and technology, as well as to the field of More-than-Human Design.
He is the co-editor, with Professor Gordon Hush, of the forthcoming volume Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet (Bloomsbury, 2026). This collection of essays by international scholars, designers, and engaged citizens invites reflection on how design - understood in a more-than-human way - might reimagine its relationship with capitalism and contemporary lifestyles.
Elio’s research projects have been exhibited internationally, including at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, the Royal Institution in London, the Science Museum in London, and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. MoMA has acquired his work into its permanent design collection in recognition of his contribution to practice-based design research.
Research interests
Elio’s teaching and research engage with a range of interconnected themes, including interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, science and society, STEAM education, emerging scientific knowledge and technologies, more-than-human design, planetary conversations, environmental education, and design dissent.
PGR supervision interests
Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, science and society, STEAM education, emerging scientific knowledge and technologies, more-than-human design, planetary conversations, environmental education, and design dissent.