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The "Cognitive Hydrology" Trilogy

Through Creative Life Curation, through thematic exploration, through consciously engaging with one's own cognitive flood, a person can transform the ordinary experience of daily life into sustained creative development.

Wonder and Wander (book, v1.0, 2025)

Wonder and Wander (2025) is a reflective work by Oliver Ding examining the formation and evolution of knowledge enterprises between 2019 and 2025. Based on eight case studies, the book explores how long-term creative projects emerge, stabilize, and transform over time.

Meta-frameworks (book, v1.0, 2025)

How individuals and groups work with concept systems over time, how frameworks emerge through use, and how they evolve as projects accumulate.

Developmental Projects (book, v1, 2025)

The Project Engagement Approach to Adult Development

Strategic Life Narrative (Possible Book, v1, 2025)

This possible book is not only an exploration of the twelve types of Strategic Life Narrative practices but also serves as a comprehensive review and presentation of my creative work over the past several years.

Frame for Work (possible book, v1, 2024)

A book draft about Knowledge Frameworks, Predictive Models, and the World of Activity.

Knowledge Discovery (Possible Book, 2022)

An Introduction to Oliver Ding's 2022 book draft: Knowledge Discovery: Developing Tacit Knowledge with the Thematic Space Canvas.

Homecoming: A Thematic Trip and the World of Activity Approach

Homecoming is more than a memoir. It is both a personal narrative and a theoretical contribution, showing how everyday experience can become a source of cultural insight, creative frameworks, and intergenerational connection.

Creative Life Curation (Possible Book, v1, 2022)

A Possible Book for Knowledge Creators and Experience Curators

Project-oriented Activity Theory (Summary)

The TOC and Introduction of my 2021 book Project-oriented Activity Theory.