This portfolio showcases personal projects driven by questions and not by briefs. A selection of projects assembled for the Design master's application at HKB — not to demonstrate a career, but to show ways of approach.
Diego Guerra
2026



Master thesis project developed at the HGK Basel in 2023, within the Experimental Design programme. A research into the aesthetics of drinking — how expectation and image gradually replaced flavour as the primary experience of the cocktail...
A secondhand market built around what gets discarded here and wouldn't be anywhere else...
Covered in large-format macros of human skin, sealed under a material that made the surface look wet and uncomfortable. Made for a university closing apéro, with looped audio of chewing and swallowing playing around it. The object sits somewhere near Kristeva's notion of the abject: the unease of the body made visible where it “shouldn't” be...
A bookshelf, a bar tool, a column, a set of glasses. Objects made to understand something through making it. Mostly metal, mostly simple, none of them in production...
Starting from Manuel DeLanda's writing on intensive differences, Gabriel Köferli and I asked what happens when pain becomes the medium of a message passed between two people at the same time...


Diego Guerraguerradiego@aol.com
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