Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center (Page 7)

Evolving Thematic Coordinate：Origin, Dimension, Element, and Genidentity

This article introduces the Evolving Thematic Coordinate Model, which was born from a case study. The model has been curated into a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).

Preface: One Life, One World

This is the Preface of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).

Activity Analysis Network #24: World of Activity — Year in Review, Possible Book, Thematic Maps

The three things are not separate. The year in review explains why the book was possible. The book explains what the maps are for. The maps explain how the approach can be used.

Epilogue: Creative Self and Social World

From Being by Doing to Coordinate–Center–Gejunction

World of Activity (Book, v1, 2026)

This is the introduction of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI). World of Activity refers to the individual’s world within social life. The World of Activity approach takes this individual perspective as its starting point.

The Unfolding of Subjectivity: The Coordinate–Center–Gejunction Framework

In this article introduces the Coordinate–Center–Gejunction Framework as a toolkit to understand this nested structure.

Creative Diagramming: The House of Gejunction Dynamics

Circle is the form through which the World of Activity opens onto the World of Life. There are other concepts at this same threshold. One of them is Gejunction — a concept that serves as the unit of synthesis within GO Theory.

Marinate the Mind: The Living Coordinate of Knowledge Engagement

what happens inside a single creator's activity, when a thematic focus first appears, and how does that focus either grow into a lasting creative center or fail to?

Creative Diagramming: The House of Circle Dynamics

World of Activity looks at this terrain from the perspective of the individual. It traces how a single creative life develops — from Flow to Focus to Center. Circle is where this individual perspective reaches its limit and opens onto the collective.

Creative Diagramming: The House of Flow Dynamics

In the World of Activity approach, I treat Flow as a diachronic development — a process that unfolds over time.