Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Advanced Life Strategy: Anticipatory Activity System and Life Achievements (Book)

An introduction to a systematic approach to life strategy and a possible book.

A Five-space Model for Strategic Curation Activity

What does Strategic Curation mean? It refers to using a specific strategy to curate pieces of experience, knowledge, and resources into a meaningful whole for a better future.

Creative Life Curation: Kinds of Actors

Curators are not scientists. Creative Life Curation needs both Creators and Curators.

Lifescope: The World of Activity for Creative Life Curation

The notion of "the World of Activity" is a new definition of "Lifescope". It also proposes a new thematic dialogue between Phenomenology and Activity Theory.

Slow Cognition: The Activity U Project and Creative Life Curation

Using the Creative Life Curation framework to reflect on the Activity U project.

A Semiotic System Diagram for Creative Life Curation

Turning potential opportunities into actual actions, turning the world into a person’s experience, and turning the person’s experience into artifacts for the world.

The Activity Circle (Oliver Ding, 2017)

The Activity Circle focuses on “Self, Other, Thing, and Think”. It is perfect for discussing a special object which has double properties: material property and mental property.

Developmental Service Design (DSD)

The notion of “Developmental Service” refers to a special type of service such as educational services, summer camps, adult life development programs, life discovery activities, etc.

A Typology for Anticipatory Activity System

A Significant Insight I learned from the Anticipatory Activity System (AAS) project

Slow Cognition: Three Paths of Creative Life and A Semiotic System

Oliver Ding adopts Ping-keung Lui's theoretical sociology as a reference frame to develop a curated framework for the Life Strategy project.