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

 Dr. Myriam Diatta is a designer, author, and independent scholar living in Aarhus, Denmark.

Info
Past Projects
1.  Book
Doing Creative Work from Your Political Body: A Guide and Process for Practice-led Research, 430 pages
2. Course Learn the book’s process. For designers, visual artists, performers, musicians, architects
3. Research    Publications
Methodology
METHODOLOGY

For those of us who like to geek out on the how of things, on this page, I unpack the approach—the inner workings of what I do.


  OutcomeS        Tools         Processes         Frameworks         What Is at Stake?

FRAMEWORKS
The behind-the-scenes architecture that grounds the Tools and Processes described here. The lineages that make this work possible.

  • Doing theory, thinking practice
    Cultural studies, performance studies, queer theory, and critical autoethnography help us articulate the mutually influential relationships of knowing and being—and the institutions that police and maintain this binary.

  • Criticality
    Critiquing through the contemporary capitalist westernized imperialist realities in which we live and building otherwise and elsewhere. Black studies and Black critical thought equip us with the words and potential towards liberation and abolition.

  • Practice-led research
    Approaching inquiry in an iterative and emergent fashion by drawing from professional design practice. Prioritizing the epistemic depths of creative, artistic, and design processes; decentering scientific and theoretical research as the standard approaches for inquiry.


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