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I think one of the first things that needed to be taken into account were how busy the practitioners, the teachers and teachers’ assistants were within the two case studies. One of the adaptations I made was to present the practitioners with a summary of the individual children’s involvement in the study, so to demonstrate their interests and priorities, what they had been telling me about their existing environment, and these became the catalyst for more conversations with the practitioners about their own views on the new building. There was another way in which I adapted the methods when I was working with the practitioners: when it came to the review of the completed school with the new nursery, I experimented with the practitioners making their own maps, using their own photographs to document what they thought about the new space, so it was a way of trying out the Mosaic approach tools with the adults as well as with the young children.