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Rebuilding the Living Coordinate: A Case Study Summary

About two weeks before writing this article, I noticed that a friend had been sharing a series of articles and materials about a profound transformation in her belief system — what she called "reinstalling her internal operating system."

A Chair from a Hundred Years Ago

The chair sat in Fuzhou through all of it. Now it is on the cover of a book that tries to say something about what that journey means.

Appropriating Activity Theory (Possible Book, 2026)

The "Appropriating Activity Theory" column aims to reflect my creative journey of engaging with Activity Theory from 2015 to 2025. It was started on September 4, 2025.

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.