Faculty

Profile

Chantal Meng is a interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Chantal was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, named a Stuart Hall PhD Fellow, and received a Doc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is the co-founder of the design studio POL and the art space Grand Palais in Bern, Switzerland, and the initiator of Night Drawing, a participatory project in which people sketch together to explore the relationship between darkness and light in the city at night.

www.chantalmeng.com
www.urbandarkness.net

Degrees Held

PhD, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies,
Goldsmiths, University of London

MA, Photography & Urban Cultures — Sociology,
Goldsmiths, University of London

Recent Publications

• Meng, Chantal. 2025. “Let’s Night Draw! Darkness and Light in the Urban Night.” In Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces, ed. Brandellero, Rodrigues & Pardue. Amsterdam University Press.

• Meng, Chantal. 2025. “Building Shadows: Rethinking Darkness in the Urban Night.” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 10 (2).
• Meng, Chantal. 2022. “Night Drawing: Re-writing Darkness in the Nocturnal Land/Cityscape.” Ethnologies 44(1):153.

Research Interests

night studies, media ecology, cultural studies, anthropology