Elio Caccavale studied Product Design at Glasgow School of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art to complete a master in Design Products. His projects involve collaborations with scientists, social scientists and bioethicists.  The transdisciplinary nature on his projects seeks an understanding of the role of design in creating a dialogue between life sciences and everyday life.

Elio holds visiting research positions in the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths College, the Cybernetics Department at Reading University and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also visiting lecturer on the MA Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art.  In addition, he has held visiting research positions at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS – Newcastle University). 

He has lectured internationally and presented his work at the World Forum on Science and Civilization (University of Oxford) and at the 9th World Congress of Bioethics. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Design Museum (Triennale) in Milan, The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville, the Design and Applied Arts Museum in Lausanne, The Royal Institution in London and the Centre d’Art Santa Monica in Barcelona, just to name a few. Elio work’s is in the permanent collection of MoMA New York.

Elio’s work has been published internationally by Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, Die Gestalten Verlag dgv, MIT Press, 5 Continents, Postmedia Books and Centre Pompidou. He has worked on collaborative projects funded by the Wellcome Trust, EPSRC – Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and The Arts Council England.

Elio is currently a PhD candidate in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. His research investigates design and bioethics partnerships, with particular emphasis upon collaborative research methods.