Thinking Form:
A Creative Practice for Bringing Together the Everyday and Black Onto-Epistemologies

Myriam D. Diatta

Appendices

Areas of PracticeContextsMethod(s)
How I listen to my physical body
My body
Reflexive Writing
Reflexive Model-Making
How I facilitate in structured settings Interviews in living rooms, bedrooms, prayer room Reflexive Writing
Workshop with designers Reflexive Model-Making
How I engage with others' ideas Reading literature and writing about my worldviews Reflexive Writing
Reading literature and writing about politics of writing Reflexive Writing
Reflexive Model-Making
How I engage across my communities My father’s home village in Senegal Reflexive Writing
Collaborative space to write an academic paper Reflexive Writing

Area of Practice 1

How I Listen to my Physical Body

Appendix 1. Documentation of the research context. Video footage of part of a meditative sitting experiment summarized in Chapter 3: Section B.

Appendix 2. Documentation of reflexive writing. Abstract accepted to International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2020 conference SIG on Black Feminist Autoethnography that was cancelled due to Covid-19. Corresponds to Appendix 1. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 8: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How My Body Moves].

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Appendix 3. Documentation of reflexive model-making. Corresponds to Appendix 1. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 8: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How My Body Moves].

Area of Practice 2

How I Facilitate in Structured Settings

Appendix 4. Documentation of the research context. Video trailers made for grant application (grant application process not part of the PhD research). Video footage of in-home interviews summarized in Chapter 3 Section B.

Appendix 5. Documentation of reflexive writing. Essay titled, “Our Everyday Forms.” An unpublished paper currently being revisited for submission. Corresponds to Appendix 4. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 1: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How I Interview].

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Appendix 6. Documentation of the research context. Video made for the 2021 Design Research Society conference to introduce myself and my workshop to participants. Summarized in Chapter 3 Section B.

Appendix 7. Documentation of reflexive model-making. Corresponds to Appendix 6. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 5: Aligning Double Consciousness and [Who My Work Is For].

Area of Practice 3

How I Engage with Others' Ideas

Appendix 8. Documentation of the research context and reflexive writing. An unpublished paper submitted to Text and Performance Quarterly. Titled, “Freezing Ontologies.” Summarized in Chapter 3: Section B, discussed in Chapter 4: Section 2: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How I Write with Theory].

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Appendix 9. Documentation of research context and reflexive writing. An unpublished paper being prepared for submission to non-academic online publication. Titled, “I Paid Attention to the Footnotes.” Summarized in Chapter 3 Section B, discussed in Chapter 4: Section 9: Aligning Double Consciousness and [Who I Write To].

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Appendix 10. Documentation of reflexive model-making. Corresponds to Appendix 9. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 9: Aligning Double Consciousness and [Who I Write To].

Area of Practice 4

How I Engage Across my Communities

Appendix 11. Documentation of a context. Video footage taken during a family trip to Casamance, Sénégal. Video made for family and later shared in a PhD milestone presentation. Summarized in Chapter 3: Section B.

Appendix 12. Documentation of reflexive writing. Unpublished. Corresponds to Appendix 11. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 3: Aligning Double Consciousness and [Talking about Family].

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Appendix 13. Documentation of research context and reflexive writing. Paper in press with Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum. Titled, “Family of Sensibilities: Toward a Relational Design Practice Grounded in Materiality and Embodiment.” Co-authored with Ricardo Dutra and Lisa Grocott. Summarized in Chapter 3: Section B. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 4: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How I Co-Author].

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Appendix 14. Documentation of research context and reflexive writing. Essay co-authored with Ricardo Dutra titled “Threading Notes: On a Writing Collaboration” published through Figshare. Summarized in Chapter 3: Section B. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 4: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How I Co-Author].

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In Between the Work

Appendix 15. Documentation of reflexive model-making. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 6: Aligning Double Consciousness and [The Company I Keep].

Appendix 16. Documentation of reflexive model-making. Four images of one paper model. Discussed in Chapter 4: Section 7: Aligning Double Consciousness and [How I Decide To Do A PhD].

Reflexive Model-Making: Extended

The seven paper models featured below were made in the duration of the PhD research, but were not featured in the exegesis.

Appendix 17. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to my politicization outside of the PhD. Model made 2021.

Appendix 18. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to an exchange with a community member. Model made 2021.

Appendix 19. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to my experience with authorized and unauthorized ways of knowing. Model made 2021.

Appendix 20. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to navigating a viscerally colonial, white, western, context. Model made 2021.

Appendix 21. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to visiting Isle de Gorée. Model made 2021.

Appendix 22. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to exposing the model-making process in the PhD. Model made 2021.

Appendix 23. Documentation of reflexive model-making. In regards to a politicized community to which I belong. Model made 2021.