Appropriating Activity Theory #12: Agency Resonance Behind the Project Network (2022)
The network resonates. And the insights that emerge from that resonance are different in kind from anything a single project can produce.
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Appropriating Activity Theory #11: When Two Students Aren't Enough (2023)
These four threshold moments at the school have taught me something fundamental about agency and structure.
Appropriating Activity Theory #10: The LARGE Method (2018 - 2026)
Sharing the story of the LARGE Method and tracing its development over the years.
Appropriating Activity Theory #9: The ECHO Way (2021)
From a 2021 manuscript to a 2026 live dialogue: Following the continuous ECHO Journey as it expands from individual reflection to social projection.
Appropriating Activity Theory #8: Stage, Map, and Moves
The seed from 2017 has now grown into the History {Life[Self(Body)]} Framework (v3.0), a meta-framework for the Meta-frameworks project.
Appropriating Activity Theory #7: The Piano House and Activity as Container
The "Activity-as-Container" conceptual deck was part of a four-project creative journey from July 2017 to Feb 2018.
Appropriating Activity Theory #6: Engaging with Andy Blunden's Creative Ideas
The student had to become a creator before he could adequately teach the teacher's ideas.
Appropriating Activity Theory #5: Kids are Our Teachers (2018)
Interestingly, this story resonates with the research of Cole and Barker on children conducted many years ago.
Appropriating Activity Theory #4: When Vygotsky Meets Dewey (2019)
From 2019 to 2021, I worked on the Theory—Practice Connection centered around a simple diagram as a creative heuristic tool. The three-year journey took several strategic moves to scale its initial focus.
Appropriating Activity Theory #3: Means, End, and Creative Chaos
On February 22, 2022, I stayed in a room to conduct a self-dialogue to resolve a creative challenge. It resonated with the Means-End principle in Activity Theory.