Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Self-installation Activity

For consumers, the Self-installation Activity requires rich knowledge about products, fast learning, attention to detail, hands-on skills, etc.

Z Lab @ Activity Analysis Center

Activity Analysis Center works on two things: 1) knowledge curation and 2) knowledge creation.

Diagramming as Activity

“diagramming as an activity of knowing, theorizing and reflecting” adopts an Activity view to understand Diagramming as a Social Practice.

Activity Analysis Center: Curativity, Creativity, and Activity

For the Activity Analysis Center, the focus is described with the following themes: Curativity, Creativity, and Activity.

Project Engagement (v2.1) as an Innovation Approach

Introduce a thesis about the Project Engagement approach (v2.1).

Project Engagement (v2): Life, History, and Multiverse

The pair of concepts of "Event - Project" is part of the Project Engagement approach while the pair of concepts of "Life Themes - Cultural Themes" is part of the "Themes of Practice" framework. The new diagram is also inspired by the notion of "Activity as Project Engagement".

Blog: Re-learning Activity Theory

Three actions and one quotation about Second-order Activity and my “Activity” thematic space.

The SET Framework [Hybrid Approach]

The SET Framework was originally named as the Ecological — Activity Hybrid Approach. It was developed during 2017 to 2020 when I worked on several projects which refers to a new type of social action platform.

Lev Vygotsky’s “Ecological Mind” [Activity Theory]

Vygotskian scholars don’t use “Ecological Mind” to describe Vygotsky’s ideas. I just use the term to highlight Vygotsky’s three ideas which are highly relevant to ecological approaches of psychology: Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), Perezhivanie, and Social Situation of Development.

The Concept of Development [Activity Theory]

One of Yrjö Engeström’s major theoretical contributions is Developmental Work Research which is based on the concept of Zone or Zone of Proximal Development.