Ben Lignel took over the professorship for Design related Sciences in October 2025. He will teach at the AdBK Nuremberg as a visiting professor for two semesters. 
 

Ben Lignel is a potter, craft thinker, educator, publisher and maker living in Montreuil (France), the town of which Paris is the suburb. A jewellery maker and advocate for 25 years, Lignel co-curated also known as jewellery (2008), MirrorMirror (2011), Difference and Repetition (2013), Exposé (2017), Medusa, Jewellery and Taboos (2017) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Tableau Vivant (2018) at the Pinakothek der Moderne / the Design Museum, Munich. Alongside his curatorial practices, he started contributing essays and op-eds to magazines and publications in 2006, and became a member of Think Tank. A European Initiative for the Applied Arts, in 2009. He was the editor of Art Jewelry Forum between January 2013 and December 2016. During his tenure, Benjamin oversaw the publication of more than 350 essays, reviews and interviews, and edited three books, including the first book-length study of jewelry exhibition-making. He is guest teacher at  Alchimia (Florence), the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Nürnberg), HDK-Valland (Gothenborg), and was core faculty at the M.A. in Critical Craft Studies (Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa), from the program’s inception to its end.
After working with jewelry in his studio for over 20 years, Lignel is now primarily interested in producing ceramic tableware.