Elio
Caccavale
Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation
School of Innovation and Technology
biography
Elio Caccavale is Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation. His teaching, scholarship, and research explore the ethical, social, and environmental dimensions of scientific knowledge and technology, with a particular focus on human–non-human relationships.
He is co-author, with Professor Gordon Hush, of Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet (Bloomsbury, 2026) and Digital Design for Planetary Care: The Hidden Environmental Cost of the Digital World (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
His research has been disseminated internationally through major museums and cultural institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Science Museum and Royal Institution in London, Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and the Beijing Industrial Design Centre. MoMA has acquired his work for its permanent design collection.
Elio is a Fellow of Advance HE and has reviewed for Bloomsbury, Routledge, The Design Journal, and DEFSA.
Research interests
Elio’s teaching and research engage with a range of interconnected themes across interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, science and society, STEAM education, emerging scientific knowledge and technologies, more-than-human design, planetary care, environmental humanities, and environmental education.
PGR supervision interests
Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, science and society, STEAM education, emerging scientific knowledge and technologies, more-than-human design, planetary conversations, environmental humanities, and environmental education.
Current PGR students
Marissa Cummings, Caring Object: Trauma-Informed Co-Design of Digital Harm Reduction for People with Experience of Substance Use
Dr Cara Broadley, Lead Supervisor; Professor Elio Caccavale, Second Supervisor.
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