  Dissipative engineering constitutes a framework within which quantum
information processing protocols are powered by system-environment interaction
rather than by unitary dynamics alone. This framework embraces noise as a
resource, and consequently, offers a number of advantages compared to one based
on unitary dynamics alone, e.g., that the protocols are typically independent
of the initial state of the system. However, the time independent nature of
this scheme makes it difficult to imagine precisely timed sequential
operations, conditional measurements or error correction. In this work, we
provide a path around these challenges, by introducing basic dissipative
gadgets which allow us to precisely initiate, trigger and time dissipative
operations, while keeping the system Liouvillian time-independent. These
gadgets open up novel perspectives for thinking of timed dissipative quantum
information processing. As an example, we sketch how measurement based
computation can be simulated in the dissipative setting.
