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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Weave the Theory: The Journey of Activity Theory and CHAT (Since 2000)

What makes a theoretical tradition a tradition — rather than simply a collection of works — is the collaborative structure that holds it together across time... It means something more structural: a before–after relationship between creators.

Weave the Enterprise: Theoretical Platform and Theoretical Enterprise

Together, these four contributions give the concepts of Theoretical Platform and Theoretical Enterprise the analytical depth they need to function as productive tools within the Weave-the-Theory toolkit.

Revisiting the Genidentity of Activity Theory

Capturing the Essential Difference of a Theoretical Tradition

Activity Analysis Network #16: Weave the Life, Theoretical Activity, and Knowledge Ecology

these articles inspire me to edit a new possible book titled Weave the Life: The Life-as-Activity Approach (v4.0) and Personal Knowledge Ecology.

Weave the Life: The Life-as-Activity Approach (v4.0) and Personal Knowledge Ecology (Possible Book, v1, 2026)

This book is organized into five parts, each taking "Weave" as its organizing theme — but each meaning something different by it.

Weave: A Model of the Actor

As the intermediate layer between the Activity as Project Engagement model and the Life-History Topology model, the Weave-the-Life framework plays a significant role in the Life-as-Activity approach.

Introduction to Weave the Life: The Life-as-Activity Approach (v4.0) and Personal Knowledge Ecology

It re‑presents the work through a unified symbolic system — the Weave form — and, for the first time, organizes the full territory of the Life‑as‑Activity Approach (v4.0) around the concept of Personal Knowledge Ecology.

Appropriating Activity Theory #16: The Tool That Kept Changing Its Purpose

The tool kept changing its purpose. But it never stopped being a mediating tool. That, perhaps, is what Activity Theory would have predicted all along.

Weave the Theory: Unfolding the Way of Curation

What I did not expect was that, years later, my own explorations in this direction would lead to a similar situation.

Weave the Theory: A Case Study of the AAS Framework Development

The AAS case adds a methodological contribution that none of the previous cases feature. It demonstrates the Aspects-to-Approaches crossing as the originating move of theoretical work — a crossing that happened in less than a month ...