Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center (Page 3)

Wonder and Wander (book, v1.0, 2025)

Wonder and Wander (2025) is a reflective work by Oliver Ding examining the formation and evolution of knowledge enterprises between 2019 and 2025. Based on eight case studies, the book explores how long-term creative projects emerge, stabilize, and transform over time.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: The LARGE Method (2018-2026)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Oliver Ding's LARGE Method as a second case study, tracing its 8-year trajectory from 2018 to 2026.

Appropriating Activity Theory #10: The LARGE Method (2018 - 2026)

Sharing the story of the LARGE Method and tracing its development over the years.

The Path of Creative Life in a Trip

A trip as a living theoretical model

Mindentity: The Ontology of Thematic Creation

All entities are mindentities, but not all mindentities are entities.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: The Mindentity Concept (2017, 2026)

An experimental exploration of an overlooked creative cognitive process.

[World of Activity] The Living Coordinate Model (2026)

A personal Life Coordinate is a conceptual framework that maps an individual’s orientation within the world of activity, integrating both worldview and life orientation.

Activity Analysis Network #9: Anticipation, Culture, and Education

In this issue, we explore how anticipation, education, and culture come together—sharing reflections, creative projects, and new frameworks that connect theory and practice in meaningful ways.

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.

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.