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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Generative Confluence: Theoretical Activity, Theoretical Enterprise, and Theoretical Platform

In May 2026, I recognized that the trio of concepts I had recently developed — Theoretical Activity, Theoretical Enterprise, and Theoretical Platform — was itself a product of a smaller, nested confluence.

The Aspects - Approaches Fit

This article addresses the silence directly. It traces the Aspects-Approaches distinction back to its methodological source, explains what Weave-the-Theory adds to that source...

Clay Spinuzzi: Mediating Concept and Network of Projects

A dialogue between two theoretical traditions may generate mediating concepts...But it is not always sufficient to establish a distinctive knowledge niche.

From Personal Epistemology to Knowledge Ecology

This is the Postscript of a new possible book: Weave the Theory: The Art of Theoretical Activity and Knowledge Ecology

Activity Analysis Network #17: Weave the Theory

The release of Weave the Theroy marks the moment when the knowledge engagement exploration reaches the knowledge ecology stage.

Appropriating Activity Theory #17: The Art of Theoretical Activity

In 2022 I called it Slow Cognition. In 2026, it has a more accurate name: The Art of Theoretical Activity.

Weave the Theory (Possible Book, v1.0, 2026)

The Art of Theoretical Activity and Knowledge Ecology

One Center, Multi-voices, and Multi-moves

To examine this ecology, the article focuses on one of its most generative nodes: the knowledge enterprise built by Yrjö Engeström and centered on CRADLE. Two analytical tools from the Weave-the-Theory toolkit are used.

Bonnie Nardi: Engaging with a Theoretical Tradition

When a theoretical tradition reaches a moment of broad cross-boundary expansion — entering many disciplines simultaneously, forming a Creative Delta — the Curativity Line work at that moment is foundational: ... This is the Second Founding...

Weave the Theory: The Journey of Activity Theory and CHAT (Since 2000)

What makes a theoretical tradition a tradition — rather than simply a collection of works — is the collaborative structure that holds it together across time... It means something more structural: a before–after relationship between creators.