One of the biggest challenges in the subject of social transformation is connected to a genuine way of achieving it. How do you plan a concrete action - a specific project ‐ that represents a deeply felt need for a group, when that action may be the object of institutionalization lead by a political power and/or of intermediate organizations and at the same time the object of an effort to construct solid and applied scientific knowledge? Is it possible to construct socialscientific investigations that contemplate the needs of the actors while incorporating investigative guidelines responsible for bring about change?(...)