Chapter  7

Implementation and spread

The generic model for design research presented in Chapter 3 shows all three core processes (analysis and exploration; design and construction; and evaluation and reflection) interacting with practice through the (anticipation of) implementation and spread of interventions. It also suggests that the interaction generally increases as the project matures. Even though actual implementation and spread cannot take place until an intervention has been constructed, researchers and practitioners jointly anticipate and plan for it from the very first stage of analysis and exploration, e.g. by tempering idealist goals with realistic assessments of what is possible; by taking practitioner concerns seriously; and ...

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