Myriam Diatta, PhD
Myriam Diatta, PhD is invested in artists and designers' inquiries at the intersection of making, critical theory, and everyday ways of moving in the world. She is critical creative practitioner and independent scholar currently living a quiet life in Aarhus, Denmark.
Myriam's work is dedicated to developing practical methods made to support artists and creative practitioners who engage with socio-political theory. The methods are for exploring the relationships between the everyday things we make in practice and the politicized commitments we make in theory. Her work explores Black ways of knowing and being, undisciplining, critical theory (Black studies, queer theory, etc.), and material culture.
Past work ranges from co-founding and operating a design studio, consulting for a large public health non-profit, creating an exclusively Black, Indigenous, and PoC community online, to facilitating group sessions for a library and a museum. Myriam has a doctoral degree through Monash University's Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (Melbourne), an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from The New School, and a BFA in Industrial and Interior Design from Syracuse University. She is a former Y3 member of NEW INC (2016-2018).