Joint Center: Revisiting the van Gogh brothers' Creative Life
This article has introduced Joint Center as a concept that extends the World of Activity framework's understanding of what a Center can be.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
GO Square: Mapping the "Thematic Trip" Constellation
Now we have a complete mapping case of the "Thematic Trip" constellation — seven concepts, each anchored at its own GO Coordinate, woven together through Attachance into a dynamic network, and finally curated into a coherent whole: "The Lifecycle of a Theme."
GO Square: A Thematic Mapping of a Trip to China
While working on the Closure and Unfolding book manuscript, I began to see that this theme was not alone. The trip had generated a whole network of themes — cultural themes ...
GO Square: Mapping ACS, SDP, and Other Theoretical Enterprises
This article shifts focus from the map to the territory. Specifically, it applies the GO Square framework to map the five theoretical enterprises that currently operate on the GO Theory platform.
Spatial Heuristics: A Thematic Trip and a Possible Book
the development of a creative theme called "Closure and Unfolding" – a pattern captured in 2025 and recently developed into a plan for possible book.
Activity Analysis Network #21 — One Half-Year, Eight Possible Books
The next regular issue is scheduled for July 15, following the usual biweekly rhythm. But today I want to send an off-cycle note — not organized around the usual Flow–Focus–Center–Circle schema, just four things.
Strategic Developmental Psychology (Possible Book, 2026)
Situation, Gejunction, and Supportive Self-Actualization
Introduction: Strategic Developmental Psychology (v2.0)
From the ACS project to the SDP project
SDP: Gejunction — A Unit of Synthesis within GO Theory
This chapter introduces Gejunction, GO Theory's most recent unit of synthesis. It begins by situating Gejunction within GO Theory's relationship to SDP, and within the cross-disciplinary method —
Preface: One World, Many Dreams
That is what SDP offers: not a map of the seasons, but a framework for navigating the specific, irrepeatable landscape of one's own life — with its own constraints, its own resources, its own timing, and its own Dream.