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). He is also the author of Design and Ecological Citizenship: Reimagining Design Education for More-than-Human Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2027), which develops ecological citizenship as a framework for rethinking design education and practice.

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 a member of the Glasgow School of Art’s Peer Review College. He has also reviewed for Bloomsbury, Routledge, The Design Journal, and the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa.