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I’m Black-Asian (Japanese-Diola) with a political and creative upbringing nurtured in New York City. These days I am living a quiet life in Aarhus, Denmark. I spend my time bouldering, sewing to fill my wardrobe, and attempting ikebana flower arrangement.
In my work life, I’m an independent researcher and designer with ten years of training and experience. My practice involves conceptual projects, critical writing, and facilitation. ︎ My vision is / for those of us contributing to the project of liberation / through conceptual and artistic means / to be supported with radical tactics, abundance, and tenderness. The collaborations I hold most dearly are with folks working towards moving softly, reflectively, and with accountability.
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In my work life, I’m an independent researcher and designer with ten years of training and experience. My practice involves conceptual projects, critical writing, and facilitation. ︎ My vision is / for those of us contributing to the project of liberation / through conceptual and artistic means / to be supported with radical tactics, abundance, and tenderness. The collaborations I hold most dearly are with folks working towards moving softly, reflectively, and with accountability.
Sign my new guestbook!
myriamddiatta (at) gmail dot com
(she/her)
RESEARCH TOPICS
My main research area is critical artistic research.I use academic research as a way to attend to what is conceptual—which allows us to speculate, extrapolate, interpret—and what is concrete—where we can implement, iterate, and practice. I’m an independent scholar which means I have a doctoral degree (2018-2021) from Monash University (Melbourne) and continue to do academic research, writing, and publishing without affiliation or salary from an institution. Below are the areas of inquiry I am a part of and contribute to.
- Practice-led research
- Design research
- Black critical thought
- Material practice
- Interiority
- Knowledge production
- Critical autoethnography
- Critical citation practice
- Creative contexts to investigate how artists and designers engage with contemporary socio-political conditions
- Developing methodologies and reflexive methods to explore relationships between knowing and making
- Critical theories, studies, and practices
WHERE I’VE PUBLiSHED
Platform for Artistic Research Sweden (PARSE) (Article)Cluster for Critical Artistic Research (CCARe), Aalto University, Finland (Article)
Bloomsbury Publishing (Book Chapter)
Text and Performance Quarterly (Article)
Design and Culture (Article)
Nordic Design Research Society Conference (Article)
The Art of Research Conference, Aalto University, Finland (Article)
ICQI: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, SIG in Autoethnography
Journal of Arts Writing for Students, Intellect Books (Article)
See Academic CV for more.
* Please do not hesitate to email me for access to my articles to bypass the academic paywalls.