https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2105-5022
Professor Elio Caccavale 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.
Elio is the co-author, alongside Professor Gordon Hush, of the forthcoming edited 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 at, for example, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Design Museum Triennale in Milan, the Science Museum in London, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, the Design and Applied Arts Museum in Lausanne, the Royal Institution in London, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, Science and Society, STEAM Education, Emerging Scientific Knowledge, Emerging Technology, More-than-Human Design, Planetary Conversations, Environmental Education, Design Dissent.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Young Academy of Scotland, the Physiological Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Arts Council England, and the Spanish Minister of Culture have funded Elio's research projects.
Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, Science and Society, STEAM Education, Emerging Scientific Knowledge, Emerging Technology, More-than-Human Design, Planetary Conversations, Environmental Education, Design Dissent.
Elio has served as Subject Lead for the MDes Design Innovation and Citizenship programme since 2019, while also contributing more broadly to teaching and administration across the MDes Design Innovation programmes.
The MDes Design and Innovation Citizenship programme extends beyond organisational structures to consider the impact of design on all living beings and ecological systems, recognising their ‘citizenship’ within a broader, more ecological understanding of society.
Elio is currently the External Examiner for the MA Design for Industry 5.0 Course at UAL, Central Saint Martins.
