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Thematic Space Theory: A Toolkit as a Specific Theory

This article was originally published on TALE’s website on Medium.com. On September 29, 2026, I republished it on the Activity Analysis Center’s website to provide background on Thematic Space Theory for the Gejunction project, where Thematic Space is considered one aspect of Gejunction.

The Thematic Space of Knowledge Engagement

Thematic Space is not a single-level concept. It has different positions and functions in different theoretical levels.

The Social Science Square: Mapping Objects and Things of Knowing

A Sub-square of GO Square for Tracing Scales of Analysis, Means, and End

GO Square: Introducing the Knowledge Ecology Square

After finishing Marinate the Mind, I sat down and began, properly, on the new square. Several rounds of revision later, here is where it landed: The Knowledge Ecology Square.

The World of Activity Model: Flow, Focus, Center, and Circle (v1.0, 2025)

A brief introduction to the primary model of the World of Activity approach.

Evolving Thematic Coordinate：Origin, Dimension, Element, and Genidentity

This article introduces the Evolving Thematic Coordinate Model, which was born from a case study. The model has been curated into a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).

Preface: One Life, One World

This is the Preface of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).

Activity Analysis Network #24: World of Activity — Year in Review, Possible Book, Thematic Maps

The three things are not separate. The year in review explains why the book was possible. The book explains what the maps are for. The maps explain how the approach can be used.

Epilogue: Creative Self and Social World

From Being by Doing to Coordinate–Center–Gejunction

World of Activity (Book, v1, 2026)

This is the introduction of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI). World of Activity refers to the individual’s world within social life. The World of Activity approach takes this individual perspective as its starting point.