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Pop-in expo

Institute of Patent Infringement

The Institute of Patent Infringement, by UK-based designers Matthew Stewart and Jane Chew, aims to dissect the dubious world of intellectual property rights that allows 'Big Tech' multinationals a monopoly on ideas concerning automation.

Wearable RFID devices with manually activated RFID tags. Amazon Industries, Inc. Source: European Patent Office (EPO)

The project unveils the future of technical innovations imagined and designed by Amazon by detailing and organising thousands of patents filed since 2010, ranging in scale from the body to a 1km2 ‘fulfilment centre’.

The Institute of Patent Infringement is part of the extended programme of WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the theme of the 2018 Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. It was also on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival programme in September 2018.

Pop-in expo

New presentations of mainly young design talent can be seen in the foyer of Het Nieuwe Instituut every few weeks. It is a way of highlighting a striking design or innovative research, whether or not it is connected with the current exhibition and debate programme of Het Nieuwe Instituut.

date
09/10/2018
through
28/10/2018
 
 
location

Het Nieuwe Instituut
Museumpark 25
3015 CB Rotterdam

entrance

Free entrance
 

all activities
Curator Marina Otero Verzier
Assistant curator Katía Truijen
Contributors Amal Alhaag, Beatriz Colomina, Marten Kuijpers, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Simone C. Niquille, Mark Wigley
Extended programme Jane Chew and Matthew Stewart, Northscapes Collective (Hamed Khosravi, Taneha K. Bacchin and Filippo laFleur), Noam Toran, Giuditta Vendrame, Paolo Pattelli, Liam Young.
Exhibition design Raphael Coutin, Marina Otero Verzier
Graphic design Hans Gremmen
Press Christiane Bosman, Eveline Mulckhuyse
Web cover Simone C. Niquille
Managing editor Nick Axel
Supported by Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science Creative Industries Fund NL Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Rome, Italy

With the title WORK, BODY, LEISURE the 2018 Dutch Pavilion addresses the spatial configurations, living conditions, and notions of the human body engendered by disruptive changes in labor ethos and conditions.