Mr. Wil Dim
Details
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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wil.dim@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-0693-3330
About
Wil's passion is working with people... his forte, is finding solutions to complex design challenges and ensuring good ideas become exceptional design outcomes.
He is a seasoned designer with over two decades of design industry experience, ranging from traditional consultancy and in-house staff design, through to freelance, and consulting in transdisciplinary environments. Wil has worked on projects across a broad spectrum of industries, including medical, high-end electronics, industrial equipment, branding, entertainment, wayfinding/signage, film and now settling into a nurturing role for tomorrows talent.
Teaching interests
Teaching practice is across the whole discipline and into all studios as required.
Past Studios:
Coordinator and under the banner of Safeness by Design (in collaboration with):
- Enabling an Ageing Workforce: Worksafe Vic (contract research $20k)
- Future of Work 1: Worksafe Vic (contract research $20k)
- Safeness in Digital Health: RMIT Activator
- Safeness in Digital Health: RMIT Digital Health CRC (x2)
- Digital Health: Advancing Patient-Facing Solutions: StrongRoom Ai
- MedTech Investigation: Whistle Design
- Green-Tech Supermarket of Excellence: Coles
Studio Lead:
- Fututre of Work 2: Eddie Goh
- Design for Difference: (Desiree Riny and TOM Melbourne)
Supervisor in Honours Year (Pt1 & Pt2)
Current course co-ordination:
Industrial Design Drawing 1
Industrial Design Drawing 2
Research interests
As an Associate Lecturer in RMIT’s School of Design, Wil is developing a learner centred teaching practice, which seeks to assist learners in empowering their own journey. Currently nearing the completion of his PhD, he is investigating pedagogical practice in design education and is deeply engaging with reimagining learning and teaching experiences for the contemporary period.
With his colleagues Associate Professor Soumitri Varadarajan and Dr. Caroline Francis, they have been awarded the 2022 Vice Chancellor Teaching Award of Excellence for Innovative Design Pedagogy and the 2022 ACUADS Teaching Excellence Award.
Currently a Co-Lead in Responsible Practice: with Dr Jude Glover for Industrial Design - a school-wide initiative on Responsible Practice within the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT. The project focuses on creating shared understanding and actionable frameworks for ethical, inclusive, and culturally sensitive design practices. By facilitating open conversations, peer-led workshops, and reflective dialogue across disciplines, the initiative invites staff and students to embed care, reciprocity, and responsibility into their design approaches.
