2024–present
PhD, Landscape Architecture
ESALA, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Profile / CVCarlisle / Edinburgh, United Kingdom
she/they
Spatial Researcher & Designer
Academic and professional records: Jincheng Meng
I am a practice-based spatial researcher and designer working across landscape architecture, critical cartography, environmental humanities, and participatory fieldwork. Much of my work explores the tension between embodied, situated ways of knowing and increasingly machine-mediated ways of seeing, representing, and interpreting the world. Through fieldwork, drawing, mapping, moving image, AI, and situated collaboration, I examine how landscapes are experienced, governed, remembered, and co-produced by human and other-than-human lives.
01Landscape architecture
02Critical cartography
03Environmental humanities
04Participatory fieldwork
05Embodied and situated knowledge
06Immersive spatial narration
Document index / 2026
Education
2022–2023
MA, City Design
Royal College of Art
London, UK
2017–2022
BDes, Art and Technologies (Display Design)
Nanjing University of the Arts
Nanjing, China
Selected Professional Experience
2023–2024
Artist Assistant
Dima Srouji's Studio
London, UK
Architectural research and digital production through 3D scanning, modelling, and video editing.
2021–2022
Translator
Reference News
Remote
German automotive news editing, translation, and publishing.
2019–2022
Spatial Designer
Ruide Industrial Design Co. Ltd.
Nanjing, China
Urban landscape and commercial art exhibition design, bidding, and interactive display development.
Teaching
2023–present
Tutor
ARTEOLOGY LTD
London, UK
Interdisciplinary research and teaching related to participatory spatial theories.
Exhibitions & Practice-based Outputs
2025
Robot, Ruin, Recode
Inspace Gallery / Architecture Fringe
Edinburgh, UK
Collaborative intermedia installation via generative AI, moving image, modelling, and 3D printing.
2023
The Thread: Submerged Evidences
RCA2023
London, UK
Interactive VR archive.
2023
Digging
PORTALS OF PERCEPTION
London, UK
Interactive digital twin of the Al Jazzar Mosque.
Conference Presentations
2026
Situated Imagination and Imaginaries for Urban Futures
Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Presenter in the Countervisions Off the Map session.
2025
Situating (im)mobilities, (un)fixing borders
Citizenship and Migration Research Network, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Research presentation.
Methods & Digital Practice
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Field and visual methods
Participatory fieldwork · drawing · mapping · moving image · archival research · spatial notation
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Digital practice
Rhino · Blender · Unity · photogrammetry · LiDAR scanning · Gaussian splatting · GIS-based mapping · Adobe Creative Cloud
Languages
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Mandarin Chinese
Native
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English
Professional working proficiency
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German
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