Aïcha Diallo
PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield
Aïcha Diallo is a curator, editor, and educator whose work and research engage with creative cities, spatial justice, and urban epistemics. She is the former managing editor of the art magazine Contemporary And (C&) and co-edited Untie to Tie: Colonial Fragments in School Contexts, published in German, English, and French.
Diallo has served on juries for the Open Society Foundations, Goethe-Institut, and other cultural institutions. She was an associate lecturer in Pedagogy and Social Practices at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences. A fellow at the Arts Rights Justice Academy (UNESCO Chair), she has also been a visiting scholar at IFAN and Musée Théodore Monod, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar.
Currently a PhD candidate in the Emerging Urban Inequalities doctoral program at the University of Sheffield in the School of Geography & Planning and the Urban Institute, she explores Dakar’s urban landscape. Diallo holds an M.A. (Distinction) in Intercultural Education from Freie Universität Berlin and a B.A. in European Studies from Queen Mary University of London.
Selected publications
Diallo A. and Castro Varela M.. 2023. “Die Gespenster der Vergangenheit: Trauma, Kunst und Postkolonialität – ein Gespräch.” In: Castro Varela, M. and Haghighat L.. Double Bind Postkolonial – Kritische Perspektiven auf Kunst und Kulturelle Bildung. transcript, Bielefeld.
Diallo, A.. 2023. “Decolonial Aesthetics/Aesthetis has Become a Connector across Continents – a Conversation of Contemporary And (C&) with Walter Mignolo.” In: Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Diallo, A., Niemann A., Shabafrouz M. (eds.). 2021. Untie to Tie – Colonial Fragments in School Contexts – Koloniale Fragmente im Schulkontext – Fragments coloniaux dans le contexte de l’école. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn.