SDP: Revisiting the "Situation" Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective
Viewed through SLM's own vocabulary, "situation" in every one of these debates functions as a unit of analysis, never a unit of synthesis...
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Supportance and The Weave-the-Project Framework (v1.0, 2025)
A connection between Supportance Theory and the Project Engagement Approach
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 ...