Lileas Meng — Spatial Practice

RoleSpatial Researcher & Designer

BaseCarlisle / Edinburgh, United Kingdom

PracticeLandscape · cartography · fieldwork

IndexON THE GO / Yangtze / 2026

Practice-based research across landscape architecture, critical cartography, environmental humanities, and participatory fieldwork.

Practice, research, and spatial narration across situated landscapes.

Panoramic view across a stony Yangtze riverbank towards cargo vessels — ON THE GO 01Yangtze Riverine Landscapes · 2024–present

Set within the Yangtze River's ten-year fishing ban and wider framework of ecological conservation, Lileas's doctoral research examines changing riverine landscapes through situated, embodied, and multisensory forms of knowledge. Working with fieldwork, drawing, mapping, moving image, and collaboration, the project considers how fisherfolk experience, more-than-human agencies, and ecological memory can be traced without reducing the river to a detached cartographic view.

01Situated fieldwork
02Critical cartography
03Moving image & collaboration

Line drawing of docked vessels and a settlement on the Yangtze riverbank — 01Riverbank field drawing

Satellite survey strip tracing settlements and water along the Yangtze — 02A linear reading of the field site

Overhead line drawing of two figures studying an eroded riverbank — 04Situated landscape trace

A fisher demonstrates a fishing net inside a domestic room — 05Embodied knowledge held in making

Two people work together while demonstrating parts of a fishing net — 06Collaborative net demonstration

Hands hold and explain knots and connections within a fishing net — 07Material detail and bodily explanation

Reused fishing net forms a domestic enclosure containing household objects — 08Material afterlives ashore

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