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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

[Creative Note] The Notion of Developmental Functionalism

This post is a reflective conceptual note on the notion of Developmental Functionalism, tracing how it emerged from my ongoing work on developmental concepts and theoretical frameworks, particularly developmental episode.

The Alienation of Supportance: The RelationField of High-Conflict Divorce (HCD)

In this article, I conceptualize HCD as a special type of RelationField—an HCD RelationField—whose internal logic and operational dynamics depart radically from those of ordinary intimate relation fields.

Following the Theme (2026): A 42-Post Journey in Reflection

This morning, after reflecting on the 42-post project, I designed a new thematic card: Following the Theme.

Thematic Supportance: Curation, Narrative, and Meaning

This article aims to explore the connection between Thematic Supportance and Creative Life Curation (2022), Strategic Life Narrative (2025), and GO Theory (2026)

Supportive Life Discovery (v2.0): The Mid-life Curation Edition

Mid-life development is a dual reconstruction process of career trajectory and life meaning, in which the Living Coordinate emerges as a watershed of structural reorientation.

[Creation Note] Gejunction: Toward a Unit of Synthesis for Social Life

This article documents the developmental history of the concept Gejunction.

Supportances in Intimate Relationships: A Theoretical Framework

This article applies Supportance Theory and the RelationField framework to intimate relationships for the first time.

Activity Analysis Network #19: Appropriating Activity Theory, Rebuilding the Living Coordinate, and RelationField

These articles grew out of two main projects, with related articles emerging alongside each.

A Journey of Finding the Coordinate

This article is an excerpt from a chapter of Lake

A Thematic Conversation on Finding the Coordinate

What does a “life operation system” look like? It is a metaphor. When a person uses a metaphor to say something, we need to figure out what the actual meaning the person wants to express behind the metaphor.