approach-processes — Myriam D. Diatta (Official)

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

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

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Past Projects

1. Book
Doing Creative Work from Your Political Body, 430 pages

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2. Course Learn the book’s process. For designers, architects, performers, writers, visual artists

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3. Research Publications
Methodology

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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?

PROCESSES
Ways to make visible the intangible values, theories, and principles that need attending to.

Interiority
Creating protected space to attend to the structures of interior life—things that are home, private, inner, embodied, intersubjective, and illegible to others. What is personal is political.

Reflexivity
Using critical frameworks to revisit, fragment, and understand our past experiences.

Materialising
Making visible and tangible what’s intangible—our values, principles, commitment, knowledge, emotions, and culture.

Abstraction and metaphor
Through a unique balance of distance and familiarity, metaphors make it possible to engage with the ethos of theory and the concrete everyday at once.

Lateral thinking and speculation
The ability to imagine despite an overwhelming number of unknowns. We can draft speculative illustrations cast two days, two months, ten years into the future. From there, we can reverse engineer what we want, need, and do in the present.