Activity as Practice - Activity Analysis Center

Culture as Anticipatory Activity

This article integrates three recently developed concepts—Mindentity, Folkentity, and Worldentity—through the Agency Cascade model, and reads this integration against the background of the "Culture as Thematic Enterprise" framework.

Thematic Development Study

The purpose of the article is to define it as a new form of research practice and methodology.

Education as Anticipatory Activity

As we continue to develop the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology approach, education serves as a rich domain for exploring how human beings collectively navigate uncertain futures through the creation, curation, and transformation of concept systems.

Creativity, Curativity, and Theoretical Activity

In this article, I will introduce the Weave-the-Theory framework to discuss a special type of activity: Theoretical Activity.

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.

Thematic Conversation as Practice

The practice of theme-centered conversation for professional workers

Platform-based Service

How do ambitious creators use digital platforms to host their own services?

Self-installation Activity

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

Diagramming as Activity

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