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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Supportances in Intimate Relationships: A Theoretical Framework

This article applies Supportance Theory and the RelationField framework to intimate relationships for the first time.

Activity Analysis Network #19: Appropriating Activity Theory, Rebuilding the Living Coordinate, and RelationField

These articles grew out of two main projects, with related articles emerging alongside each.

A Journey of Finding the Coordinate

This article is an excerpt from a chapter of Lake

A Thematic Conversation on Finding the Coordinate

What does a “life operation system” look like? It is a metaphor. When a person uses a metaphor to say something, we need to figure out what the actual meaning the person wants to express behind the metaphor.

RelationField (v3.0): A Model of Social Appropriation

Looking back over this whole chain — Yan Fu's residence, the trip, the photograph, the cover, the postscript, and now this article — I was reminded of a framework I had worked on last November, concerned with the subject–object relation.

SDP: Revisiting the "Belief" Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

This paper focuses on the Self-Life-Mind (SLM) model. First, we explore how the SLM schema approaches the "belief" issue. Second, we review how the SLM schema operates as a meta-framework, providing the structural principle that ...

Mapping Strategic Moves #5: Ideas, Possible Project, and Actual Project

In this article, we discussed three thematic rooms: Ideas, Possible Project, and Actual Project. If we connect them together, we see a circular path of a strategic journey.

Mapping Strategic Moves #2: Engaging with Activity Theory

This article is part of a possible book Strategic Moves: Mapping Knowledge Engagement and Structural Choice.

Rebuilding the Living Coordinate: A Case Study Summary

About two weeks before writing this article, I noticed that a friend had been sharing a series of articles and materials about a profound transformation in her belief system — what she called "reinstalling her internal operating system."

A Chair from a Hundred Years Ago

The chair sat in Fuzhou through all of it. Now it is on the cover of a book that tries to say something about what that journey means.