Meta-frameworks (book, v1.0, 2025)
How individuals and groups work with concept systems over time, how frameworks emerge through use, and how they evolve as projects accumulate.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Education as Anticipatory Activity
As we continue to develop the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology approach, education serves as a rich domain for exploring how human beings collectively navigate uncertain futures through the creation, curation, and transformation of concept systems.
Appropriating Activity Theory #9: The ECHO Way (2021)
From a 2021 manuscript to a 2026 live dialogue: Following the continuous ECHO Journey as it expands from individual reflection to social projection.
The Landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology
In this article, I share the story behind these moves from AAS to HLS, and the landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology.
Activity Analysis Network #8: Re-engagement and Co-becoming
On the final day of 2025, marking the close of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, I write this newsletter to release a new possible book, Meta-frameworks: The Self-Life-Mind Schema and Other Creative Heuristics, to close a multi-year journey of theorizing creative life.
The Essence of the Concept System
A concept system is a network of concepts with a coordinating mechanism. In this article, we explore it from six perspectives: scale, hierarchy, boundary, function, representation, and genidentity.
A Case Study of The Weave-the-Theory Framework
Developing a meta-framework to understand Cultural Innovation
Appropriating Activity Theory #8: Stage, Map, and Moves
The seed from 2017 has now grown into the History {Life[Self(Body)]} Framework (v3.0), a meta-framework for the Meta-frameworks project.
Activity Analysis Network #7: The Piano House, Activity, and Mind
In this issue (#7), two new articles explore the Activity as Container conceptual deck I created in 2017, and the story behind it.
Appropriating Activity Theory #7: The Piano House and Activity as Container
The "Activity-as-Container" conceptual deck was part of a four-project creative journey from July 2017 to Feb 2018.