The past century has shown that art is not only a practical 'hands on' discipline that results in an certain artefact. In the future of the arts, applied research has been introduced in the artistic curricula, where a process oriented approach to artistic and cultural expression is required in its public exposure, from the early beginnings of a research.

Aiming to develop a methodology to research, travellab assumes several methodologies, all of which are equally respected:

The understanding and appliance of the methods in scientific, technological and cultural research and knowledge production is highly demanded in both 'users' and 'developers' circles, where a translation of different jargons into a common, understandable language, may inspire reflection and innovation in a comparative an non-fundamental way.

This open-source research is guided and seeded by public participation and projects are characterised by the articulation and diffusion of knowledge that can be used in more than one context.