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

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


Nocturnal Earth 


Site: Franklin Park, Boston 
Year: Spring 2019












+art +installatio +publicart +bats +ecosystem +activation +nocturnal landscape +afterdark 

In the novel Let There Be Night, Paul Bogard wrote that “the night is when the wild earth comes alive”. Applied to Franklin Park, this statement is ever so true. Although the park is home to a 72-acre local zoo, beyond the fences of the zoo is a multitude of wildlife that remains invisible to us, unknown, unseen. What is beyond the physical confinements of this zoo? Even more fascinating, what is beyond the standard 9am-5pm daily operation of the park? Wildlife continues to exist after dark, and perhaps even grows in intensity. This explores Franklin Park’s potentials after dark to activate the night landscape by reintroducing nocturnal species into the site such as local bat species and fireflies, making the invisible more visible. This affords the site with educational & recreational programs, engaging with the public for a broader understanding of natural systems beyond what you can learn from the zoo.

Nocturnal creatures such as bats are invisible to the park visitor because they only emerge after dusk, yet people are often wary to go into the thickets of these woods at night due to poor lighting and a prevailing sense of danger for families with young children. By extending the park’s programmatic activities into the afterhours, nearby communities gain access to their neighborhood park even after dark.