The Patchingzone is a transdisciplinary laboratory for innovation where Master, doctor, post-doc students and professionals from different backgrounds create meaningful content. In our laboratories the students and researchers work together, supervised by experts, on commissions with creative use of high-tech materials, digital media and / or information technology.
The Patchingzone brings together people who are interested in building a shared practice. The participants come from a range of educational programs such as art schools, design schools, social and computer sciences, technical programs, and industry.
The Patchingzone applies the 'Processpatching' approach that is defined by its initiator's (Anne Nigten) PhD thesis, as it's main methodology for creative research and development, and builds on the knowledge and expertise from the V2_Lab, the research and development department of V2_. V2_ is a widely acknowledged centre for art and media technology, based in Rotterdam. V2_ produces, presents and distributes media art. Furthermore, we build on shared expertise from the network of collaborators and experts from the field.
Products
The Patchingzone is a praxis laboratory that is assignment driven and therefore it delivers products. The products are the outcome of commissions by socially engaged organisations, governments (national, local) and industry. These commissions are executed according to very original interpretations by the talented teams.
The deliverables and the outcomes of the commissions represent the sum of the involved education programmes and disciplines and the surplus value of their collaborative effort. During the development process, the gained knowledge will be disseminated and shared in seminars and conferences.
So The Patchingzone delivers highly innovative products and brilliant students and contributes to conferences and organises seminars, workshops trainings in a continuous reiteration of the so-called 'Processpatching method' as the defined method for transdisciplinary innovation.