Creative Diagramming: The House of Focus Dynamics
This article is part of a series of posts that introduce a new series thematic maps for the World of Activity Approach, especially the FFCC model (Flow-Focus-Center-Circle).
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Creative Diagramming: The House of Center Dynamics
Inspired by Daniel Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life (1978), I began to ask: if a Center could be seen as having a life of its own, what would its seasons look like?
Creative Diagramming: The House of World of Activity
Today I updated the World of Activity page on the Activity Analysis Center website. After completing the work, I just designed a new thematic map (see the diagram above) for fun.
However, this new design brings a new insight. This is what the article about.
SDP: Two Diagrams about the Self-Life-Mind Schema
I used Self-Life-Mind directly as a knowledge model. It stood at the front, orchestrating a series of other frameworks. It came down to the ground and did the work, rather than hiding behind the scenes.
World of Life: Four Positive Frontiers of Project Engagement
I rediscovered a diagram I made in 2022 — The Shaman's Mandala — which maps four concepts from the Ecological Practice Approach onto a four-boundary structure: Affordance, Supportance, Attachance, and Curativity, each occupying a distinct position.
World of Life: Four Negative Frontiers of Knowledge Engagement
Beyond those edges, a second square frames the four negative frontiers: Mystification, Dogmatism, Echo Chamber, and Tragedy of the Commons. They are not distant dangers. They occupy the zone just outside the working space, adjacent to every boundary, always within drift.
The Tripartness Meta-Diagram and Diagram Blending
The Tripartness meta-diagram can be expanded into what I call a Diagram Network — or, put differently, it can be seen as the result of a process of Diagram Blending.
The Dialectic Room: A Meta-diagram for Innovation
The Dialectic Room is a meta-diagram designed to apply dialectical logic to manage structural tensions. Its origin lies in the “germ-cell” diagram of Project-oriented Activity Theory.
Slow Talk: The ARCH of Thematic Engagement
Building Mentionship by Sharing themes accurately
A Semiotic System Diagram for Creative Life Curation
Turning potential opportunities into actual actions, turning the world into a person’s experience, and turning the person’s experience into artifacts for the world.