Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.

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.

Creative Diagramming: The House of OODA Dynamics

This article focuses on the OODA map: The House of OODA Dynamics.

The Relationfield of Knowledge Engagement

This article asks what actually happens when two knowledge creators meet. Using RelationField, a framework completed in 2026, this article supplies that missing layer: reading a series of cases, from a single brief exchange to eighteen years of correspondence, Episode by Episode.

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).

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.