Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center

Spatial Heuristics: The Art of Alignment

It is a story of how alignment operated across three different levels: from the simple sorting of data, to the strategic alignment of meta-frameworks, and finally, to a spatial illusion of structural alignment that I had to carefully unpack and reject.

Weave the Theme: The Typology of Theme and Beyond

This article does not propose a final typology of theme. It gathers the attempts I have made over several years to classify themes, sets out the detail of each, and asks what distinguishes them.

Cognitive Hydrology: Revisiting and Rebuilding the Thematic Engagement Toolkit

This article revisits this journey and the Thematic Engagement Toolkit and rebuild it. By using the Weave-the-Theory Model, the concept of "Thematic Engagement" was developed with relevant principles, models, and themes.

Cognitive Hydrology: The Weave-the-Theme Framework (v1.0, 2026)

A theme does not evolve in a vacuum; it must be interwoven with the concrete conditions of action. I am pleased to introduce the Weave-the-Theme Framework, a 4×4 diagram that serves as the operational core of the T-only Model.

Cognitive Hydrology: The Experience-Narrative-Framework-Ecology Schema

The creation of the Experience-Narrative-Framework-Ecology Schema marks a significant milestone, moving Cognitive Hydrology toward v2.0.

Activity Analysis Network #26: Developmental Strategy, Weave, and Possibility

This issue covers the first half of October. It records the completion of the Developmental Strategy book, the second round of the Chinese lecture series Activity Analysis and Intervention, and a new framework that came out of a conversation with an old friend.

The Weave-the-Possibility Framework (v1.0, 2026)

This article first introduces my friend's creative journey, then examines it through the Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit, before explaining the origin and four weave-points of the new framework.

Epilogue: Subjectivity and Strategy

To study strategy is not merely to study how people make plans or pursue objectives. It is to investigate how subjects act, think, and develop through their engagement with the world—and how, through that engagement, they continually participate in shaping the lives they lead.

Introduction: Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective

Rather than treating strategy as a concept belonging to a particular discipline, project, or group of people, I approach it as a theme that has developed across my work and can now be reconsidered from the perspective of GO Theory.

Developmental Strategy: Strategic Actor and the Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit (Book, 2026)

Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective