Diana Guo is a researcher and designer. She graduated from the Masters in Landscape Architecture and M.Des Program at the Harvard GSD, where she received the GSD Design Studies Domain Prize and Award for Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is now a PhD Student in Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP. Her research focuses on transpacific island urbanisms and climate resilience. She is particularly interested in alternative models of agricultural land use and material distribution that build community resistance, food sovereignty, and relationality. Her master’s thesis, Making Transpacific Kin: Bodily Excess in the Anthropocene, traces the accidental introduction of hitchhiking invasive species brought to U.S land through transpacific shipping routes. Through the lenses of political ecology and racial capitalism, this work investigates how biodiversity protection, race/belonging, and nationhood are entangled in the U.S Department of Agriculture and environmental regulations at the regional scale. Previously, Diana worked for research organizations such as the Harvard Joint Center for Housing, the Climate Justice Design Fellowship, and as Curator for the GSD Kirkland Gallery from 2022-2023. She has practiced in landscape architecture and urban design firms at MASS Design Group, Perkins + Will, and ASPECT Studios, among others.

Project: Food Insecurity in the Arctic, Watery abundance: building collective action through food