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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Journey of Developing a New Practice

The RR practices documented in this article span thirteen issues of the Activity Analysis Network newsletter and a wider body of related work produced between September 2025 and March 2026.

Appropriating Activity Theory (Possible Book, 2026) - Preface

Turning a column into a possible book

Project Engagement as a Theme of Practice

... practicing a theory does not require a grand undertaking like writing a 300‑page monograph. Sometimes, simply taking a few elements from a large theoretical system is enough to get started...

SDP: Revisiting the “Self” Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

Building on the Self-Life-Mind (SLM) schema, this paper proposes a solution that maintains Self, Life, and Mind as analytically distinguishable but ontologically inseparable aspects of an indivisible whole.

SDP: Two Diagrams about the Self-Life-Mind Schema

I used Self-Life-Mind directly as a knowledge model. It stood at the front, orchestrating a series of other frameworks. It came down to the ground and did the work, rather than hiding behind the scenes.

Activity Analysis Network #18: Weave 2.0, GO Square, and Leeway Model

These articles represent three foci: Weave the Method (Part 6 of Weave the Theory), GO Square and Weave 2.0, and Creative Confluence Analysis.

Appropriating Activity Theory #18: Revisiting and Rebuilding a Theoretical Tradition

This post is part of the "Appropriating Activity Theory" series, which reflects my creative journey of engaging with Activity Theory from 2015 to 2026.

Weave 2.0: Synchronic Line, Diachronic Line, and Living Coordinate

The two lines come from the Weave knowledge system; the Living Coordinate is what their intersection produces within the World of Activity Approach; and each such coordinate opens onto a Thematic Space

Weave the Method: Part and Whole, Synchrony and Diachrony, Inside and Outside

This article reviews the three chapters that constitute Part 6, identifies the structural tensions that run through all three, and draws out what this convergence reveals

How to Navigate the Symbolic Universe: Three Principles of Spatial Heuristics

how does one actually use GO Square to locate, analyze, and trace the movement of concept systems?