Event listing Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Christoph Zellweger, Sheffield Hallam University.

Currently I have no regular teaching responsibilities at SHU but I continue to run short experimental workshops in many leading European Universities and Design & Art Academies every year. I see this as a way to disseminate research findings, and fine-tune questions alongside other professionals and students.

Street furniture to keep you fit and playground facilities for all ages have become familiar sites in many urban public spaces. In his forthcoming solo show, Domesticated, Christoph Zellweger presents new work that reflects on omnipresent social engagement in practices of self-improvement

Christoph Zellweger has been invited to give a lecture at this year's Šperk Stret 2014 conference in October where he will be presenting 'What's up with jewellery / news from the edge'. The 6th international conference of contemporary jewellery in Bratislava Šperk Stret´14 follows a running tradition. The aim is to encourage a search across disciplines for new inspiration and offers a forum for dialogue and discussion.

The monograph, published and distributed internationally by ACTAR Publishers, targets academic and non-academic audiences concerned with hybrid practices in the arts, applied art and design. The publication contextualises and sets out Zellweger's research and work in different media and includes images of finished works, works in progress and in context.

Under the heading INCREDIBLES Zellweger explores the uncanny but also spectacular side of medical body modification and toys with its psychological implications; the lengthening of limbs (phantom limbs), improved performance (plug-ins & add-ons), impossible body parts, optional aesthetics, variations and choice (from the INCREDIBLES series).

In the quest for an optimised body that incarnates beauty, wealth, health, and success, a growing number of individuals across social sectors are engaging in practices of body modification. With the advances in medical research and the popularisation of surgery, the body becomes a luxury item, a malleable design matter, which can be sculpted, sucked, lifted and invested into.

Excessories was an exhibition which confronts creative misunderstandings with the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.

KeyPiece was a combined public exhibition and research event bringing together leading metalworking practitioners and their work in November 2009.

Sharon Kivland and Christoph Zellweger at the Kirchner Museum Davos & Hochschule Luzern - Workshop about 'Gesture'.