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MYRIAM D. DIATTA, BFA, MFA, PhD 


/meer-yam jah-ta/
(b. 1990, Dakar)

Dr. Myriam D. Diatta is an independent design researcher
based in Aarhus, Denmark.


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RESEARCH 

My main research area is critical creative research.

Being an “independent” scholar means that while I earned a doctoral degree in 2021 from Monash University (Melbourne), I continue to create research projects, write, and publish without affiliation or salary from an academic institution. I tap the industry of academic research to stay linked to the lineages my work comes from, to be in conversation with fellow design researchers, and to join others in keeping traditional and anti-institutional schools of thought circulating with one another.

Below are the areas of inquiry I am a part of and contribute to: 

  • Design research
  • Reflexivity
  • Materiality
  • Embodiment
  • Interiority
  • Practice-led research
  • Critical autoethnography
  • Critical citation practice
  • Black critical thought
  • 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

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︎︎︎ Images from research projects and facilitation in the following contexts: Brown University x Rhode Island School of Design (Images courtesy of Better World x Design), WonderLab at Monash University, Centre for Nordic Otherwise, Andromeda 8220, Parsons New School for Design


PUBLICATIONS


Title 

    PUBLISHER

    AUTHORS

    YEAR

Doing Creative Work From Your Political Body:
Practice-led Research
Diatta, M. D.
2026
Chapter 3.3: The Politics of Participation in Service Design: Preparation, Emergence, and Refusals 
Agid, S., Trischler, J., & Diatta, M. D.
2026

Chapter 10: Turning the Body Inside Out: Model-Making, Critical Theory, and Self-Accountability 
Diatta, M. D.
2024

Undisciplining Who We Bring to the Academic Table: Practical Tactics to Accompany Critical Creative Inquiry
Platform for Artistic Research Sweden (PARSE)

https://doi.org/10.70733/7363hfheydn4
Diatta, M. D.
2023

Freezing Ontologies: Making Visible the Messiness of Working with Theory
Diatta, M. D.
2022

A Family of Sensibilities: Toward a Relational Design Practice Grounded in Materiality and Embodiment
Diatta, M. D., Goncalves, R. D., & Grocott, L. H.
2022
A Place to Meet: How Critical Theory Cares for the Everyday in Artistic Practice
Cluster for Critical Artistic Research (CCARe), Research in Arts and Education


https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.119529
Diatta, M. D., Jones, S. H., McEntee, K.
2021
A Family of Sensibilities: Threading Notes
Diatta, M. D., & Gonçalves, R. D. 
2020

Our Everyday Forms: Archiving objects of resistance at home 
Nordic Design Research Society Conference, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Diatta, M. D.
2019


Material Communications: A strategy applied in clinical family therapy and design
Diatta, M. D.
2015

 
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