DIANA GUO





︎LANDSCAPE

︎BREWING FLOWER POWER
︎ARCTIC FOOD KIT

︎MUSEUM IN TRANSIT
︎AIRPORT DYNAMISM

︎SNOWBANK
︎ISLAND OF SEQUENCE ︎COMMON BORDER
︎MIGRATING MUTUALISM
︎NOCTURNAL EARTH

︎WEARABLES
︎SKETCHBOOK


︎ART/EXHIBIT

︎FLOATING BETWEEN BORDERS...OR, PERHAPS, AN EARTH WITHOUT BORDERS?
︎FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM ︎
HETEROTOPIAS OF CONSUMPTION
︎MEDIATIONS
︎WEAVE
︎MOTHER II
︎RADIAL


︎WRITING
︎2021-2018
︎READING LIST


︎ABOUT  

DIANA GUO interested in creating atmospheres through storytelling and poetry and believes in the soft power that stories can bring. She is exploring the translation/transformation of personal narratives in immersive public spaces to incite awareness, emotion, and social change. Moving forward, she will continue researching themes of biopolitics and inclusion/exclusion in design practice and art.

dianaguo@gsd.harvard.edu




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Diana Guo
Selected Works

︎ About
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The media are not toys… they can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.
(McLuhan, 1954)


Airport Dynamism 


Winner of Applied Arts Awards International Competition  



Site: East Boston, MA
Year: Spring 2020
Near Future City



Featured by CBC News, Published in Print by Applied Arts Awards, Featured by Harvard GSD, Selected by Dean as Annual Holiday Card
+climatesystem +urban design +neighborhood scale +snow water +landscape+architecture +tactical urbanism 

As the private sphere is cooled down, the public sphere bears the cost of increasing heat. This asks us to rethink the unsustainability of current cooling infrastructures and asks us to look at eagle hill on a block by block basis and regional scale to find opportunities where we can elongate the lifetime of snow from the winter season into the blaring hot summer, rechoreographing hot and cold distribution in the community. The chronic risks between Logan’s heat emissions and local public health in Eagle Hill, East Boston is well documented. Among the airport’s many local impacts, we argue that urban heat island effect must be included as a major category of pollution to be addressed by MassPORT Capital. Under the GASB No. 49 Act, MassPORT is obligated to pay $7.8 million in liabilities to address the environmental effects that Logan airport has caused on the surrounding neighborhood. Detailed analyses of the cost structures of Logan Airport reveals that MassPORT has a total asset value of $5000 million, and over 700 million revenue from aviation. Similar cost structures can be found in other airports near territories with heavy snow, showing the scalability of snow reuse on a much larger scale. If we install 100 of these coolers, we estimate the total cost, including material, labor, and maintenance costs to be $8 million, a cost that Mass Port is certainly capable of absorbing into their operative budget. Reusing snow for cooling airport infrastructures can further cut utility costs, the capital which will be directed towards the neighborhood to build a community- based district cooling design strategy.

TEAM: With Runke Luo, Yuning Zhang