The workshop structure and subsequent analysis aimed especially at identifying whether environmental considerations emerged naturally in the identification and expression of trends and concrete solutions. This allowed assessment of how salient or latent these issues may be for these practitioners, as well as what particular types of practitioners raise which issues. Three of the participants were known to be explicitly ecologically oriented in their own practice and self-identified environmental sustainability as a key concern for them in the introduction round of the workshop. These three participants formed a "sustainability faction", who consistently raised sustainability-related concerns throughout the workshop. It thus became interesting to compare the proposals made by this group to the others.
Fig. 10 (left) illustrates where this group expressed environmental concerns directly in their trends and where the authors identified unexpressed environmental implications. This is compared against the other participants' sustainability-related trends. Unsurprisingly, the sustainability faction directly expressed sustainability concerns more often than the other participants (10% of the total, compared to the others' 5%), but the other participants still generated trends that have sustainability implications (11% of the total, compared to the sustainability group's 1%). The solutions differ, as the other participants expressed sustainability concerns in 11% of all solutions while the sustainability faction did so in 6%. This seems to imply a comfort the sustainability group felt with expressing their environmental concerns in general trends but less certainty when it came to actual solutions in a makerspace. This will be discussed further in the following sections.