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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

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

why has psychology never developed a proper theoretical concept of strategy? ... It is a structural consequence of how psychology has handled — and mishandled — the concept of situation.

Supportance and The Weave-the-Project Framework (v1.0, 2025)

A connection between Supportance Theory and the Project Engagement Approach

Preface: One World, However Diverse

I have selected fourteen stories from that journey and organized them into three waves of development—an early wave, a middle wave, and a late wave—each with its own rhythm, its own kind of discovery, and its own way of returning to the same question.

The Actualization of Thematic Supportance as a Creative Action

But from the perspective of Creative Life Theory, this theoretical establishment is only part of a larger story. Every actualization of Thematic Supportance is a Creative Action.

Activity Analysis Network #20: Supportance Theory, Center as RelationField, and Gejunction

In this issue (#20), 12 new articles have been added to the site...These articles are curated into a new possible book: Supportance: Self, Other, and Possible Support (v1, 2026), expect #12.

Supportance: Self, Other, and Possible Support (v1, 2026)

A Possible Book about Supportance Theory

Epilogue: The Future of Supportance Analysis

This book marks a watershed: Before: the "Supportance Theory" journey, focusing on theoretical development After: the "Supportance Analysis" journey, focusing on applications

Leeway: The Ecological Total of Supportances

Once understood as a bridge concept naming the convergence of Weave-points, Living Coordinates, and Thematic Spaces, it now names something more fundamental: the ecological total of all available supportances in a person's social-material environment.

Supportance Analysis: How a Theoretical Platform Supports Creative Work

The question "how does a theoretical platform support creative work?" is therefore not a question about influence in the abstract. It is a question about what kinds of action opportunities a platform offers, to whom, and under what conditions.

World of Activity: Center as RelationField and the Dual-Center Pattern

Recent work on Supportance Theory and the RelationField framework (v3.0) has extended the analytical reach of this toolkit into domains that had previously received less attention: intimate relationships ...