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Well, firstly I was working with children under five, as I had been doing in my two previous studies involving the Mosaic approach, but one of the main differences here was that I was working with children in a school context and so there were different demands on the research, and also different demands because a real building project was ongoing and so I wasn’t in control of the timing and the deadlines of the building, I needed to carry out the research within that process. I think another challenge was working with architects, so it was a new disciplinary group, professional group to be working with, and so I had to learn what were the professional languages and what was the culture like that architects work with on a day-to-day basis in order to work out how to best involve the views and experiences of young children in the design process.