Ying is an Interior Design Lecturer with sustained teaching experience over 14 years.
Ying has served as an invited academic panelist for Monash University and RMIT Schools of Architecture; RMIT Landscape Architecture.
In 2021 she was invited by Dr Amarra Raheem to design and host a drawing-dance workshop with dance students at the Victorian College of the arts.
Through teaching Ying seeks to open students to the speculative and agential possibilities of design.
Selected Appointments
2021 - 2024, RMIT Bachelor Interior Design (Hons), First Year Coordinator
2018 - 2020, RMIT Bachelor Interior Design (Hons), Professional Practice Coordinator
Selected Student Exhibitions
Learning To-gather, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2021
Learning To-gather was commissioned by Andrew Atchison, as part of the exhibition ‘Whose Afraid of Public Space’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2021. The design was developed and constructed by student designer team ASAP (Evan Clezy, Shengjie He, Kathleen Hoo and Sophia Koundouris) and mentored by RMIT Interior Design and These Are The Projects We Do Together. Mentors: Ying-Lan Dann, Joe Norster, Andrew Atchison & Dale Holden
Manifest, Interior Provocations, Melbourne Design Week 2020
Manifest: Future Interior Design Provocations is an exhibition that involves a series of unique posters with image and text contributions by RMIT Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) 2020 graduates. Twenty posters are to be exhibited in twenty locations across Melbourne and regional Victoria during Melbourne Design Week 2021. Each poster displays a students' provocation that surfaced during the final year of their studies and proposes how they aspire to develop their practice and manifest the world they want as graduate interior designers.
The project was curated by RMIT Interior Design academics Ying-Lan Dann and Dr Phoebe Whitman, alongside recent graduates Siobhan McCarthy and Samuel Safe, who have designed the graphics and website
Posters were exhibited among Victorian galleries, public and municipal spaces