Research at Lab2PT takes place at the Institute of Social Sciences, in the Gualtar Campus and in the Congregados building, in the city of Braga, and at the School of Architecture, Art and Design, in the Azurém and Couros campi, both in the city of Guimaraes.

Lab2PT is characterized by a high laboratory intensity, the result of a strong investment made in recent years in laboratory equipment and training, operating on different fronts (more particularly in relation to activities in the areas of Architecture, Archeology and Arts and Design) and across different locations: UMinho Archeology Unit, in Braga, along with CEAUM (Study Center of the School of Architecture), LCT (Construction and Technology Laboratory), ARENA (Advanced Design & Technology Lab), Advanced Ceramics R&D Lab, Lab 1 (Prototyping laboratory)and Lab 2 (Digital manufacturing laboratory), installed in Design Institute of Guimarães, and Garagem Avenida workshops (molds and pastes, textiles, ceramics and printing), the latter in Guimarães.

In these laboratories, R&D activities cross with other teaching activities, in an essential permeability for the development of work, as well as the provision of services abroad. The installed laboratory capacity responds to the range of Lab2PT actions, being an indispensable vehicle for collaboration between researchers, public and private institutions, in consolidating the interdisciplinarity sought.

Through UMinho’s open RepositoriUM, digital databases related to research projects in the different areas of Lab2PT are also made available.