Ying-Lan Dann

Ying-Lan Dann is a Lecturer, Interior Design. Ying is a registered and practicing architect (ARBV) and visual artist. Ying’s interior design practice is situated between art and architecture, a generative approach enabling her to make critical readings of place, time and materiality thorugh research led design. She has extensive experience in exhibition design, hospitality, residential and educational interiors. Her PhD ‘Drawing with The World drawing itself will be submitted in 2025.

Ying has held coordination roles in Interior Design Professional Practice (2018-2022) and First-Year (2022 -2026). She is a regular contributor to the Australian interior design press InteriorsAU and peer-reviewer for Idea Journal. She is an advisory member of the RMIT Design Archives.

Ying’s exhibition design, installations and research have been featured in Australian and International institutions including exhibition designs for Nicholas Mangan, A World Undone, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024 and Bianca Hester, UNSW Gallery, 2024. Her installation Circular Temporalities was selected for inclusion at the Film and Architecture Symposium, Toronto University, 2023. With collaborator Dr Saskia Schut, she presenred the paper Drawing as a web of Movement at the conference Researching Beyond Words, École d'architecture de Lyon, 2023. In 2023 - 2024, Ying led exhibition design for Parallel Structures, an Australian Research Council Linkage project developed in collaboration with UNSW Art & Design (University of New South Wales), the Institute for Culture and Society (Western Sydney University) and Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney), partnering with the Murray Art Museum Albury. Forthcoming chapter contributions include Exhibiting Structures in ‘Parallel Structures’ (Ed. Dr Veronica Tello, UNSW).