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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.

Preface: One World, However Diverse

I have selected fourteen stories from that journey and organized them into three waves of development—an early wave, a middle wave, and a late wave—each with its own rhythm, its own kind of discovery, and its own way of returning to the same question.

The Actualization of Thematic Supportance as a Creative Action

But from the perspective of Creative Life Theory, this theoretical establishment is only part of a larger story. Every actualization of Thematic Supportance is a Creative Action.

Activity Analysis Network #20: Supportance Theory, Center as RelationField, and Gejunction

In this issue (#20), 12 new articles have been added to the site...These articles are curated into a new possible book: Supportance: Self, Other, and Possible Support (v1, 2026), expect #12.

Supportance: Self, Other, and Possible Support (v1, 2026)

A Possible Book about Supportance Theory

Epilogue: The Future of Supportance Analysis

This book marks a watershed: Before: the "Supportance Theory" journey, focusing on theoretical development After: the "Supportance Analysis" journey, focusing on applications

Leeway: The Ecological Total of Supportances

Once understood as a bridge concept naming the convergence of Weave-points, Living Coordinates, and Thematic Spaces, it now names something more fundamental: the ecological total of all available supportances in a person's social-material environment.

Supportance Analysis: How a Theoretical Platform Supports Creative Work

The question "how does a theoretical platform support creative work?" is therefore not a question about influence in the abstract. It is a question about what kinds of action opportunities a platform offers, to whom, and under what conditions.

World of Activity: Center as RelationField and the Dual-Center Pattern

Recent work on Supportance Theory and the RelationField framework (v3.0) has extended the analytical reach of this toolkit into domains that had previously received less attention: intimate relationships ...

[Creative Note] The Notion of Developmental Functionalism

This post is a reflective conceptual note on the notion of Developmental Functionalism, tracing how it emerged from my ongoing work on developmental concepts and theoretical frameworks, particularly developmental episode.

The Alienation of Supportance: The RelationField of High-Conflict Divorce (HCD)

In this article, I conceptualize HCD as a special type of RelationField—an HCD RelationField—whose internal logic and operational dynamics depart radically from those of ordinary intimate relation fields.