ParkCollegium 2.0 is not a traditional performing ensemble, but a collective that comes together on a project basis to carry out practice-based research, a central pursuit of the Alamire Foundation. During each session, the singers focus on a number of themes through laboratory-style experimentation. The insights they gain are subsequently carried into their own projects, allowing the Alamire Foundation to contribute in a meaningful way to the historical performance practice of early music.

The House of Polyphony and the Library of Voices provide the ideal settings for these labs, which range from music-theoretical questions concerning compositional style to real-time comparisons of the historical acoustics integrated into the Alamire Interactive Sound Lab. The singers always work directly from the original source and notation, either in facsimile or through projections of digitized images from the Integrated Database for Early Music.