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
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

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

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

Caccavale is known for his design research projects developed in collaboration with scientists and social scientists, which examine the ethical and social dimensions of emerging technologies and scientific knowledge. Notable projects include Utility Pets and the Wellcome Trust-funded MyBio Xenotransplant, both exhibited in the landmark exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and later featured in Sense-Fiction during the World Design Capital in Lille, France. Other works include Neuroscope, a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), exhibited in Design and the Other Things at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, and Crossover, a project funded by the Biochemical Society, recognised for its contribution to science and society.

Notably, for his research project Hybrids: Towards a New Typology of Beings and Animal Products, Caccavale was consulted by The Academy of Medical Sciences for its 2011 publication Animals Containing Human Material. Also, a section in the chapter “Futures and Alternatives Now”, which includes an interview with Professors Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby 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.

In 2005, as part of the Material Belifes research project, 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 is a co-recipient of the XXVII Compasso d’Oro ADI – the highest honour in Italian design – for his chapter contribution to the Italian volume Contro l’Oggetto: Conversazioni sul Design, edited by Emanuele Quinz (Quodlibet, 2020).

Elio Caccavale trained at The Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Product Design, and at the Royal College of Art with an MA in Design Products. There, he studied under Professor Anthony Dunne, renowned for his work with Dunne & Raby, who pioneered speculative design and promoted its adoption across education and industry.

Publications

• Caccavale, Elio, and Gordon Hush. Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations about the Planet. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. ISBN 978-1-350-33807-6.

• Caccavale, Elio, et al. "Mitochondria and Us: From Exploration to Global Collective." Biochemist 44, no. 4 (August 30, 2022): 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1042/bio_2022_122.

• Caccavale, Elio. 2020. “Extraordinary Animals.” In Creature Made to Measure: Animals and Contemporary Design, edited by Thomas Seiler, 144–153. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7356-0604-4.

• Caccavale, Elio. 2020. “Strategie della cooperazione.” In Contro l’oggetto – Conversazioni sul design, edited by Emanuele Quinz, 125–132. Rome: Quodlibet Habitat. ISBN 978-88-8290-326-6.
• Caccavale, Elio. 2017. “Why Contemporary Culture Would Appear Completely Dystopian to a Consumer from the Past.” In Strange Design: From Objects to Behaviours, edited by Emanuele Quinz, 176–193. Paris: it:Editions. ISBN 978-2-917053-26-3.
• Caccavale, Elio, and Tom Shakespeare. 2014. “Thinking Differently About Life: Design, Biomedicine and ‘Negative Capability.’” In Design as Future-Making, edited by Susan Yelavich and Barbara Adams, 25–36. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-85785-839-9.
• Caccavale, Elio. 2014. “Science and Design: Neuroscope.” In Design of the Other Things, edited by Stefano Maffei, 36–41. Milan: Electa. ISBN 978-88-370-7658-0.
• Caccavale, Elio. 2009. “Neuroscope.” In Material Beliefs, edited by Tobie Kerridge, 96–108. London: Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 978-1-904158-95-0.
• Caccavale, Elio, and Michael Reiss. 2008. “Miracles, Monsters and Disturbances.” In Creative Encounters: New Conversations in Science Education and the Arts, edited by R. Levilson, 48–63. London: Wellcome Trust. ISBN 978-1-84129-077-5.
• Caccavale, Elio. 2006. “How to Extract DNA from a Banana.” In Interaction Design Premier, Vol. 1, edited by Stefano Mirti, 100–120. Milan: Postmedia Books. ISBN 978-88-7490-029-9.