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MYRIAM D. DIATTA, BFA, MFA, PhD 


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


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RESEARCH 

My main research area is critical artistic research.

As an independent scholar, 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. Being independent means that while I have a doctoral degree (2018-2021) from Monash University (Melbourne), I continue to do academic research, writing, and publishing without affiliation or salary from an academic institution. Below are the areas of inquiry I am a part of and contribute to.  

  • Design research
  • Black critical thought
  • Material practice
  • Interiority
  • Practice-led research
  • 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


ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Title 

Publication

AUTHORS

YEAR 


Chapter 3.3: The Politics of Participation in Service Design: Preparation, Emergence, and Refusals 
Handbook of Service Design: Plural Perspectives and a Critical Contemporary Agenda, 
Penin, L., Prendiville, A., & Sangiorgi, D. (eds), Bloomsbury Publishing
︎︎︎ 20 pages (approx.)
Agid, S., Trischler, J., & Diatta M. D.
2025

Chapter 10: Turning the Body Inside Out: Model-Making, Critical Theory, and Self-Accountability 
Making Knowledge: Design Studies Practices in Action, Bonne Zabolotney (ed), Bloomsbury Publishing ︎︎︎ 21 pages
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)
︎︎︎ 14 pages
Diatta, M. D.
2023

Freezing Ontologies: Making Visible the Messiness of Working with Theory
Text and Performance Quarterly
︎︎︎ 14 pages
Diatta, M. D.
2022

A Family of Sensibilities: Toward a Relational Design Practice Grounded in Materiality and Embodiment
Design and Culture, 1–25
︎︎︎ 25 pages
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, 304–326
︎︎︎ 22 pages
Diatta, M. D., Jones, S. H., McEntee, K.
2021

Our Everyday Forms: Archiving objects of resistance at home 
Nordic Design Research Society Conference, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
︎︎︎ 5 pages
Diatta, M. D.
2019


Material Communications: A strategy applied in clinical family therapy and design
Intellect Books, JAWS, 1(1), 63-76
︎︎︎ 13 pages
Diatta, M. D.
2015



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