is a designer, urbanist, and researcher whose work explores the creation of timespace in urban public spaces. Her interest in public space as a social resource was shaped by her time living across Xi'an, Beijing, Shanghai, Seattle, and New York.

Her background as an industrial designer from designaffairs GmbH trained her to attend deeply to the materiality of spatial functions. This led her to develop Indeterminate Edges, a theory that frames often-neglected urban edges as critical sites for social emergence and as infrastructures of the immediate sensorium for world-making under the neoliberal city.

Drawing on her practice in improvised jazz and African American social dance forms, Meng's research positions groove as social infrastructure. This intersection of groove and urbanism recently earned her The New School Student Research Award. Outside of her academic work, she is a celebrated dancer in the international Lindy Hop community, where she practices the social making of space, one dance at a time.