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Hi David, > I have assumed that many on this list would be using or exploring the use of appreciative inquiry. We have been using it consciously since the early 90’s as a routine part of our investigative/research methods, though we had informally applied its methods from the beginning of our work in the mid 1980s. It’s at the centre of participatory design, as I understand it. I can’t speak for others on this list about AI in design. My understanding is that it basically stemmed from David Cooperrider’s 1985 PhD work, along with Suresh Srivastva, located in organisational change studies. I came across it when teaching research perspectives in adult education more than 10 years ago. In relation to feminists and power, in addition to Dorothy Smith, I would also recommend Terry Threadgold’s approach to rewriting, Joan Acker’s 5 tier gendered practices framework, Liz Farrelly’s (1995) analysis of the invisibility of women in graphic design, Carmen Gorman’s critique of liberal feminism in design, and my own work, which interrogated gender distribution of publication and editorship in two key design journals. And a few more. teena Acker, J. 1990, 'Jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered organizations', Gender & Society, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 139–58. Clerke, T. 2010, 'Gender and discipline: publication practices in Design', Journal of Writing for Creative Practice, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 64–78. Farrelly, L. 1995, 'Mysterious absence at the cutting edge', Eye: the international review of graphic design, vol. 5, no. 19, pp. 6–7. Gorman, C.R. 2001, 'Reshaping and rethinking: recent feminist scholarship on design and designers', Design Issues, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 72–88. Hagmann, S. 2005, 'Non-existent design: women and the creation of type', in C. Jewitt, T. van Leeuwen, R. Scollon & T. Triggs (eds), Visual Communication. Special Issue: The New Typography, vol. 4, Sage Publications Limited, London, pp. 186–94. Pajaczkowska, C. 2000, 'Issues in feminist visual culture', in F. Carson & C. Pajaczkowska (eds), Feminist visual culture, Edinburgh University Press Ltd, Edinburgh, pp. 1–24. Parrinder, M. 2000, 'The myth of genius', Eye: the international review of graphic design, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 50–5. Scotford, M. 1994, 'Messy history vs. neat history: toward an expanded view of women in graphic design', Visible Language, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 368–88. Threadgold, T. 1997, Feminist poetics: poiesis, performance, histories, Routledge, London. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------