GO Square: Introducing the Knowledge Ecology Square
After finishing Marinate the Mind, I sat down and began, properly, on the new square. Several rounds of revision later, here is where it landed: The Knowledge Ecology Square.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
The World of Activity Model: Flow, Focus, Center, and Circle (v1.0, 2025)
A brief introduction to the primary model of the World of Activity approach.
Evolving Thematic Coordinate：Origin, Dimension, Element, and Genidentity
This article introduces the Evolving Thematic Coordinate Model, which was born from a case study. The model has been curated into a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).
Preface: One Life,One World
This is the Preface of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI).
Activity Analysis Network #24: World of Activity — Year in Review, Possible Book, Thematic Maps
The three things are not separate. The year in review explains why the book was possible. The book explains what the maps are for. The maps explain how the approach can be used.
Epilogue: Creative Self and Social World
From Being by Doing to Coordinate–Center–Gejunction
World of Activity (Book, v1, 2026)
This is the introduction of a new possible book: World of Activity: An Ecological Approach to Activity Analysis and Intervention (AAI). World of Activity refers to the individual’s world within social life. The World of Activity approach takes this individual perspective as its starting point.
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?