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Ben Lignel

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Ben Lignel is a craft thinker, educator, publisher and maker living in Montreuil, France. He is a guest teacher at Alchimia (Florence), HDK-Valand (Gothenburg), and was core faculty at the MA in Critical Craft Studies (Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa) from the program’s inception to its end.

When he does not teach, he works in ceramic, and makes objects for cooking and hosting with. He has a happy working relationship with language, a medium that is good for building and unbuilding ideas.

Make Me See

Editorial for the ninth issue of The Vessel, Make Me See, which wants to celebrate and reflect upon the art of noticing, and describing, craft in action. What do we see when watching people make? Editors Åsa Dybwad Norman and Ben Lignel introduce the workshop series that sparked this issue of The Vessel, including their collaboration with student editors Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Carla Rotenberg, and Iliana Papadimitriou, and contributors from three leading Nordic art academies: the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway, HDK-Valand University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Aalto University in Finland.
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