Draft:Elio Caccavale

• Comment: Also note WP:COI Lijil (talk) 17:59, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm afraid this still reads more like a CV than an encyclopedia article. You need to first find out whether Caccavale fulfils the criteria for notability in WP:ANYBIO and/or WP:PROF, WP:CREATIVE. If he does, rewrite the article to make it clear what he is notable for, why he is more well known than the average professor. For instance, the last sentence in the article about his work being in the permanent collection of MOMA is far more likely to contribute to notability than his being an external examiner, which you now have in the lede as the second sentence of hte whole article. Being an external examiner is entirely average for a prof and does not add to his notability. However most professors do not have works in the permanent collection of MOMA. If you can find reliable sources about his work that helps establish notability. It would help our volunteer reviewers if you could identify, on the draft's talk page, the WP:THREE best sources that establish notability of the subject. It would also be helpful if you could please identify with specificity, exactly which criteria you believe the page meets (eg "I think the page now meets WP:CREATIVE criteria #3, because XXXXX"). Lijil (talk) 17:57, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Please remove all external links from the article body. While the one source added after the last decline is fine, it needs to be cited as a source instead of an external link. It also does not outweigh the rest of the sources which, as I mentioned before, either have passing mentions or no mention at all of the subject. Rambley (talk) 11:47, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: While potentially notable, all of the sources either don't mention the subject at all or just contain passing mentions such as that he authored a book or an art project. Significant coverage of the subject is needed in a range of secondary, reliable sources. Rambley (talk) 10:53, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

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Elio Caccavale is a designer, researcher, educator, and author, and currently Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation at The Glasgow School of Art..

He is the external examiner for the MA Design for Industry 5.0 Course at Central Saint Martins, UAL.

Elio Caccavale
File:Elio Caccavale
Born	Naples, Italy
Alma mater	Glasgow School of Art, Royal College of Art
Occupation(s)	Designer, Researcher, Educator and Author
Title	Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Innovation
Website	https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/profile/554

Biography

Elio Caccavale trained at The Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Product Design (First Class), and at the Royal College of Art with an MA in Design Products. There, he studied under the leadership of Professor Anthony Dunne, exploring how design can contribute to the ethical and social dimensions of emerging technology and scientific knowledge.

Following a career in the design industry, consulting for global clients including Mattel and Orange (formerly French Telecom), he held visiting lecturer positions in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art and in Product Design at Central Saint Martins. He has also held a visiting research fellowship in the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading and at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBE), Imperial College London. In addition, he worked as a design researcher on the Material Beliefs project (EPSRC grant EP/E035051/1) in the Interaction Design Studio at Goldsmiths, University of London, and as a visiting designer at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre at Newcastle University.

In 2005, Caccavale co-developed the UK’s first science and design courses - delivered by the Royal College of Art in a working science laboratory - in collaboration with Dr Tobie Kerridge. These courses provided hands-on training in cell culture and DNA sequencing, broadening students’ and staff’s understanding of the material practices that underpin contemporary design.

Caccavale was visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy (2012–2014), Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe in Germany (2010–2011), and Honorary Professor at Hubei University of Technology in China (2011–2016).

Works

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.

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 International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville have funded Caccavale's research projects. He has collaborated on research projects with several scientists and social scientists, including Professor Richard Ashcroft, Dr Margaret Rose Cunningham, Professor Michael Reiss, Professor Kostas Tokatlidis, and Professor Kevin Warwick

Caccavale is the co-editor, alongside 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. He has also authored chapters in numerous books, including Design as Future-Making (Bloomsbury, 2014), which explores how design draws on and informs disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, and psychology; Creative Encounters: New Conversations in Science, Education and the Arts (Wellcome Trust, 2012), which examines the opportunities and questions arising from collaborations between artists, designers, educators, and scientists; and Strange Design: From Objects to Behaviours (It Editions, 2015), which investigates critical theory across the Italian Radical Design Movement, Conceptual Dutch Design, and British Critical Design.

Caccavale research projects have been exhibited internationally at institutions including 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 Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, the Royal Institution in London, the Hyundai Motorstudio in Beijing, the Science Gallery in Ireland, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, Gestalten, MIT Press, Bloomsbury, Centre Pompidou and MoMA have published his work internationally. Notably, a section in the chapter “Futures and Alternatives Now”, in the seminal volume Designing Interactions (MIT Press, 2006) by IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge, features Caccavale's research projects at the intersection of science, technology, society, and design.

Caccavale's work is part of the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) permanent collection.

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