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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

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.

Weave 2.0: Synchronic Line, Diachronic Line, and Living Coordinate

The two lines come from the Weave knowledge system; the Living Coordinate is what their intersection produces within the World of Activity Approach; and each such coordinate opens onto a Thematic Space

Weave the Method: Part and Whole, Synchrony and Diachrony, Inside and Outside

This article reviews the three chapters that constitute Part 6, identifies the structural tensions that run through all three, and draws out what this convergence reveals

How to Navigate the Symbolic Universe: Three Principles of Spatial Heuristics

how does one actually use GO Square to locate, analyze, and trace the movement of concept systems?

Unit of Analysis, Level of Analysis, and Configurational Theory

The central argument is simple: "unit of analysis" operates differently in four distinct positions within the knowledge ecology of a theoretical tradition.

GO Square: Mapping the Symbolic Universe

This article introduces GO Square, an operational framework for systematically mapping the Symbolic Universe—the intersection of the Cultural System and the Historical System.

Methodological Empathy: The HITED Framework and the Theory-Method Fit

Applying the RR practice to my 2022 HITED article reveals what was already present in that work and what was missing.