It was one thing for elite designers to design in a vacuum, but quite another for them to look into the "mirror" and have users of the urban landscape express their disappointment and dissatisfaction with their efforts.

Social factors served not only to provide designers with programmatic content but also to offer feedback that prompted self-reflection, a component largely neglected by modernism.

Similarly, the collective's four projects highlighted the needs of workers, as well as those of the disenfranchised and oppressed.