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


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


1.  INFO
2. PROJECTS
3. APPROACH
4. RESEARCH



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

FORMATS
Academic Research
Craft
Cultural Work
Facilitation
Installation
Movement
Professional Research
Teaching
Writing


Fields
Abolition
Design
Clinical Therapy
Cognitive Science
Art & Culture
Harm Reduction
Higher Education
K12 Education
Library + Info Sciences
Public Health
Tech Startups


CONTEXTS
ASSATA

Child Mind Institute
Design Indaba
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
Rhode Island School of Design x Brown University
Services for the UnderServed
Teleobjects
The New School

WonderLab

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


CONSTELLATIONS
Abdul Dube
Abiola Onabule
Alice Sparkly Kat
Akeema-Zane
AK Wane
Amy Gelera
Anushka Jajodia
Ayra Digma
Aysha Amin
Azar Bagheri
Cathryn Klasto
Colleen Doyle
Cynthia Voza Lusilu
Daliah Heller
Emma Nguyen
Enni-Kukka Tuomala
Heer Mehta
Helena Cleeve
Hillary Nguyen
Ioana Man
Jasmine Woodson
Kate McEntee
Kira-Simon Kennedy
Lillian S. Tong
Lina Patel
Linda Dounia
Lisa Grocott
Meghana Srinivasan
Nicole Lashae Ben
Piniel Demisse
Rain Embuscado
Ricardo Dutra
Stacy Holman Jones
Sumitra Upham
Tattfoo Tan
Taylor Kuhn
Yasmin Ibrahim
Yi Zhang
Yinka Fasehun
Zakiya Collier
PAST WORK
Selected projects showing practical frameworks and tools for supporting designers, artists, educators, and cultural workers in their efforts toward reflection and worldmaking.



DOING CREATIVE WORK FROM YOUR POLITICAL BODY

A guide and process for Practice-led Research

Writing | 2026
CENTRE FOR NORDIC OTHERWISE

An art + design curriculum and network

Cultural Work | 2025
UNDISCIPLINING CITATION PRACTICE

A series of practical tactics to accompany critical artistic inquiry

Writing | 2023
THINKING FORM

A set of working ethics through Black double consciousness

Doctoral Research | 2018–2021


MATTER–MIND STUDIO

A creative studio hinged on understanding emotional well-being

Consulting | 2015–2021

THE LOITERING HOLE
CULTURAL WORK

An online community for respite from the white gaze

Cultural Work | 2020–2021
I PAID ATTENTION TO THE FOOTNOTES

An intervention for disrupting the politics of the academic page

Writing | 2020
WRITING ON CARE

Dreamlike writing prompts for design museum residents

Facilitation | 2020


FAMILY OF SENSIBILITIES

A collaborative paper investigating practices centered on material and bodily things

Writing | 2020
VESSEL OF WHAT

An online shop of hand-thrown pottery

Craft | 2019
A GUIDE FOR DOING THESIS PROJECTS: FOR DESIGN STUDENTS

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

Writing | 2019
 

RESIST SMALLER, RESIST SLOWER

Make Visible your Day-to-Day Resistance Practice”

Facilitation | 2019


EMBODYING SELF AWARENESS

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

Movement | 2019
TOOLS FOR RESISTING

Home tour interviews for everyday liberatory coping tools

Facilitation | 2018
 
DESIGN STRATEGIES STUDIO

A speculative design and social justice course at Pratt Institute

Teaching | 2017

NEW INC COMMUNITY VALUES

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

Installation | 2017


PSYCHOLOGICAL FUTURES

An environmental psychology and speculative design course at Pratt Institute

Teaching | 2015, 2016
MATERIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary research and tools for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

MFA Thesis | 2012, 2013–2014
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