Elio Caccavale
| Elio Caccavale | |
|---|---|
| Born | Naples, Italy |
| 🏫 Education | Glasgow School of Art, Royal College of Art |
| 💼 Occupation | Designer, Researcher, Educator, and Author |
| Title | Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation |
Elio Caccavale is a professor at the Glasgow School of Art in the UK. His teaching practice, scholarship and research explore the ethical, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of science and technology. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[1][2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
Elio was born in Naples in 1975. He studied Product Design at the Glasgow School of Art. Later, in 2004, he completed a Master's degree in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London..[6]
Career
Elio is a professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation at the Glasgow School of Art. He leads the MDes Design Innovation and Citizenship programme. His teaching practice, scholarship, and research span design, science, technology, environmental studies, social sciences, and ethics, with a particular focus on ecology and design that engages with non-human elements.[7][8][9]
Elio has taught at the Royal College of Art, where he worked with designers Anthony Dune and Fiona Raby. He has also taught at Central Saint Martins and the Architectural Association. He co-founded the MSc in Product Design at the University of Dundee and has served as an Honorary Professor at Hubei University of Technology in China.[10][11][12][13]
Elio has held Visiting Research Fellowships at Imperial College London's Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the University of Reading's Cybernetics Department from 2007 to 2009. He also worked as a Design Researcher at Newcastle University's Policy, Ethics, and Life Sciences Research Centre from 2007 to 2008.[14][15]
While working at the Royal College of Art, he worked on the Material Beliefs research project. He collaborated with Professor Tony Cass and Dr. Tobie Kerridge to create the UK's first science-design course offered by an art college in a scientific laboratory setting in 2005. This course provided practical training in cell culture and DNA sequencing.[16][17][18] He is currently the External Examiner for the MA Design for Industry 5.0 at Central Saint Martins.
Selected work
• Utility Pets (2003–2004): A project that examines ethical and social issues related to xenotransplantation.[19][20][21][22]
• MyBio / MyBio Xenotransplant Dolls (2005–2008): Educational toys that explore biological hybrids and crossover species, included in MoMA's permanent collection.[4]
• Neuroscope (2008–2011): An interactive toy connected to cultured brain cells, investigating the link between living systems and technology.[23]
• Future Families (2011): A project that investigates the social and ethical dimensions of assisted conception and surrogacy.
• Crossover (2020–present): A project that establishes a network for interdisciplinary exchange between science, society, and design, responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by scientific advancements.[24]
Exhibitions and Collections
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York[25]
• Science Museum, London
• Triennale Design Museum, Milan[26]
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
• Design and Applied Arts Museum (MAD), Lausanne
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Royal Institution, London
Publication
| Year | Publication | Co-edited, Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Contribution to Creative Encounters | Michael Reiss and Richard Ashcroft, Wellcome Trust |
| 2014 | Contribution to Design as Future-Making[7] | Tom Shakespeare, Bloomsbury |
| 2015 | Contribution to Strange Design[27][28] | Les Presses Du Reel |
| 2020 | Contribution to Contro L'Oggetto[6] | Quodibet |
| 2024 | Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet[29] | Gordon Hush, Bloomsbury |
References
- ↑ "Battle of Ideas 2008 | speaker | Elio Caccavale". archive.battleofideas.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Professor Elio Caccavale". sit.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Elio Caccavale". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Elio Caccavale | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Elio Caccavale, Richard Ashcroft, Queen Mary, University of London, Michael Reiss, Institute of Education, University of London. Xenotransplant, from the Hybrids: Towards a New Typology of Beings and, Animal Products ProjectMyBio Xenotransplant (Prototype). 2005 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Elio Caccavale - RADAR". radar.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Elio Caccavale - The Museum for Insects". hypernatural.com. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "NEWS RELEASE: Academic promotions at The Glasgow School of Art announced". Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Elio Caccavale - Daniel Joseph Harding". www.danielhardingwork.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Elio Caccavale | GSA Staff". www.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Protagonists". www.cersaie.it. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ Kerridge, Tobie. ":: Material Beliefs ::". www.materialbeliefs.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ Design as criticism: methods for a critical graphic design practice
- ↑ "NEWS RELEASE: Academic promotions at The Glasgow School of Art announced". The Glasgow School of Art Media Centre. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement
- ↑ Kerridge, Tobie. ":: Material Beliefs ::". www.materialbeliefs.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ Material beliefs - designing speculatively with biotechnology for public engagement
- ↑ "Don't Panic | Architecture Foundation". architecturefoundation.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Utility Pets". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Design as Fiction". Sens-Fiction. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "A Pig Saved My Life". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Tank Magazine". Tank Magazine. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "neuroscope". Abitare. 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "crossover". crossover.network. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ MoMA EXHIBITION DESIGN AND THE ELASTIC MIND EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DESIGN, SCIENCE, AND INNOVATION
- ↑ "Addressing problem of invisible chronic pain - Friends of the Scotsman". The Scotsman. 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Clément Le Tulle-Neyret's considered approach to Strange Designs". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Strange design : from objects to behaviours / under the direction of Jehanne Dautrey and Emanuele Quinz". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
- ↑ "Blog Post | Glasgow School of Art | Celebrating SIT Staff: Conferment of Title 2025". sit.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
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