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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Learning Landscape: Revisiting from the World of Life Perspective

The 2015 framework was not wrong — it was, in retrospect, theoretically necessary. The practice had anticipated the theory. The four perspectives were already there, already corresponding to four boundaries,...

The Significant Themes Framework (2026)

Based on observation and personal experience, I identified eight recurring themes, which correspond to eight turning periods, dividing into the regular group and the special group.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: The Significant Themes Framework (2015–2026)

The 2015 deck was a Curation act...., and one of its compressed components could be extracted and independently rebuilt (the Significant Themes R-R).

Activity Analysis Network #12: Design, Medium, and Agency Resonance

These articles contribute to the development of the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology (ACS) framework, which culminated in v1.1.

Appropriating Activity Theory #12: Agency Resonance Behind the Project Network (2022)

The network resonates. And the insights that emerge from that resonance are different in kind from anything a single project can produce.

GO with AI, Re-education Tax, and Anticipatory Medium

The Re-education Tax exists because current AI tools lack what CLAUDE.md provides: a medium that carries anticipation forward across time.

Cognitive Container of Cultural Projection

Within this container, four concepts — Representation, Medium, Artifact, and Genre — are re-anchored, assigned exclusive, non-overlapping functions, and finally strategically curated into a nested whole.

Personal Orientation of Cultural Projection

this article further develops a fourfold structure of Personal Orientation — Posture, Persona, Position, and Doctrine — that constitutes the operational ground from which individuals actualize the Projectivity that cultural life presents.

Design-oriented Project Engagement

The Discover-Design-Deliver Model provides what the six ACS meta-frameworks could not: an operational middle layer that makes the core movement of cultural development concrete and actionable.

Revisiting, Rebuilding, Re-engaging with Past Selves

This collection of essays is built around exactly that missing dimension. It begins not with Possible Selves but with Past Selves — the creative identities a person has actually enacted across the succession of projects, roles, and engagements that constitute a creative life.