Xianxuan Meng
About
Xianxuan Meng is a landscape designer based in Shanghai and London committed to environmental struggle and social justice. He previously worked as an Assistant Landscape Designer at AURA Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Studio in Shanghai.
His research at the Royal College of Art focuses on the impact of nuclear tests on the environment and human communities, through the development of counter-mappings and diagrams to reveal the hidden consequences of the colonial nuclear tests carried out by the French government in Algeria in 1960-1966. The format of this collaborative project consists of an online archive and booklets in different languages.
Before he entered the Royal College of Art, his nuclear contamination remediation project, The Rebirth of the Silence Land —— The Revival Plan of Pripyat City, was awarded the Excellence Award in the 20th Asian Design – Protection and Restoration. He also regularly participated in many community garden projects. He was the designer for the Shanghai Pudong District Lingzhao Shicun Community Garden Renovation Project and Shanghai Changning District ‘Habitat Garden’ Micro-Renewal Project.
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