Dr. Myriam D. Diatta is a designer and independent scholar. Her practice focuses on interiority at the intersection of politically engaged work and creative knowledge production. She is Black-Asian, Japanese-Senegalese, with a political and creative foundation nurtured in New York City. She is currently based in Aarhus, Denmark.

Her work has spanned design practice, academic and professional research, writing, teaching, consulting, mentoring, and publishing across multiple fields and industries. Myriam’s practice has been recognized intercontinentally through grants, fellowships, memberships, and scholarships, including NEW INC, the New Museum’s art, technology, and design incubator; Wonderlab at Monash University; Parsons ELAB; the Centre for Social Innovation; the Nordic Culture Fund; and Arts Council Norway. She has taught at The New School and served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. Her research has been published in Designing Knowledge: Emerging Perspectives in Design Studies Practices and Handbook of Service Design: Plural Perspectives and a Critical Contemporary Agenda (Bloomsbury Publishing), and in peer-reviewed journals including Text and Performance Quarterly, Design and Culture, and Platform for Artistic Research Sweden (PARSE).

She holds a doctorate in Design Research from Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Melbourne; an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design, New York City; and a BFA in Interior Design with a minor in Industrial and Interaction Design from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.