These conversations with close colleagues tended to occur within the organisational unit (the department, school, or faculty). This data
demonstrates how design is not only as an individual pursuit, but also a social practice, developed as people within the same context share
ideas.
When describing how they approached their design work and the influences on the decisions they made, participants also spoke of
working within constraints and needing to make compromises. For each unit they taught, they experienced a different sub-set of demands
to which they needed to adapt.