MYRIAM D. DIATTA, BFA, MFA, PhD

/meer-yem jaa-ta/
(b. 1990, Dakar)

1. INFO
2. STUDIO
3. APPROACH
4. RESEARCH
5. CV

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INDEX

A directory of the places, people, and formats found throughout the activities featured here and beyond. Current and past.

FORMATS

Community
Craft
Facilitation
Installation
Movement
Scholarly Research
Professional Research
Teaching
Writing

SITES

Aarhus, DK
Cape Town, SA
Helsinki, FI
London, UK
Melbourne, AU
New York City, US
Prato, IT
Providence, US
Roswell, US
Urbana-Champaign, US

CONTEXTS

Child Mind Institute
Design Indaba
Wonderlab
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Lehigh University Libraries
London Design Museum
Monash University
New Museum x NEW INC
PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden)
Pratt Institute
RISD x Brown University
Services for the UnderServed
Teleobjects
The New School

CONSTELLATIONS

Abiola Onabule
Alice Sparkly Kat
Akeema-Zane
Anushka Jajodia
Ayra Digma
Azar Bagheri
Cathryn Klasto
Colleen Doyle
Cynthia Voza Lusilu
Daliah Heller
Emma Nguyen
Enni-Kukka Tuomala
Heer Mehta
Helena Cleeve (Kjellgren)
Hillary Nguyen
Ioana Man
Jasmine Woodson
Kate McEntee
Kira-Simon Kennedy
Lillian S. Tong
Lisa Grocott
Marie-Louise Richards
Meghana Srinivasan
Nicole Lashae Ben
Ricardo Dutra
Sumitra Upham
Tattfoo Tan
Taylor Kuhn
Yi Zhang
Yinka Fasehun
Zakiya Collier

STUDIO

My practice is dedicated to supporting creative practitioners. Below are some of the projects, tactics, and methods I’ve developed to do that—all in line with my vision. You will find professional, academic and personal projects from the past 10 years of my career. They demonstrate my approach for handling theory and practice; values and actions; the abstract and the concrete.

CENTRE FOR NORDIC OTHERWISE

Community

An art and cultural center established in a future near you
2025

UNDISCIPLINING CITATION PRACTICE

Writing

A series of practical tactics to accompany critical artistic inquiry
2023

Doctoral Research

A set of working ethics through Black double consciousness
2018 - 2022

I PAID ATTENTION TO THE FOOTNOTES

Writing

An intervention for disrupting the politics of the academic page
2020

THE LOITERING HOLE

Community

An online community for respite from the white gaze
Since 2020

WRITING ON CARE

Facilitation

Dreamlike writing prompts for design museum residents
2020

FAMILY OF SENSIBILITIES

Writing

A collaborative paper investigating practices centered on material and bodily things
2020

Craft

An online shop of hand-thrown pottery
2019

A GUIDE FOR DOING THESIS PROJECTS: FOR DESIGN STUDENTS

Writing

A cheat sheet to bring some transparency to thesis expectations in design
2019

RESIST SMALLER, RESIST SLOWER

Facilitation

“Make Visible your Day-to-Day Resistance Practice”
2019

EMBODYING SELF AWARENESS

Movement

“We must investigate ourselves; the bodies we live in that contain our worldviews”
2019

TOOLS FOR RESISTING

ARCHIVING

Home tour interviews and archival project for everyday coping tools
Since 2018

DESIGN STRATEGIES STUDIO

Teaching

A speculative design and social justice course at Pratt Institute
2017

NEW INC COMMUNITY VALUES

Community, Installation

“How might we keep our community values tangible and live in the co-working space?"
2017

MATTER–MIND STUDIO

Professional Research

A creative studio hinged on understanding emotional wellbeing
2015 - 2021

PSYCHOLOGICAL FUTURES

Teaching

An environmental psychology and speculative design course at Pratt Institute
2015, 2016

MATERIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Research, Installation

Interdisciplinary research and tools for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
2012, 2013 - 2014