Mindentity: The Ontology of Thematic Creation
All entities are mindentities, but not all mindentities are entities.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Revisiting and Rebuilding: The Mindentity Concept (2017, 2026)
An experimental exploration of an overlooked creative cognitive process.
[World of Activity] The Living Coordinate Model (2026)
A personal Life Coordinate is a conceptual framework that maps an individual’s orientation within the world of activity, integrating both worldview and life orientation.
Activity Analysis Network #9: Anticipation, Culture, and Education
In this issue, we explore how anticipation, education, and culture come together—sharing reflections, creative projects, and new frameworks that connect theory and practice in meaningful ways.
Meta-frameworks (book, v1.0, 2025)
How individuals and groups work with concept systems over time, how frameworks emerge through use, and how they evolve as projects accumulate.
Education as Anticipatory Activity
As we continue to develop the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology approach, education serves as a rich domain for exploring how human beings collectively navigate uncertain futures through the creation, curation, and transformation of concept systems.
Appropriating Activity Theory #9: The ECHO Way (2021)
From a 2021 manuscript to a 2026 live dialogue: Following the continuous ECHO Journey as it expands from individual reflection to social projection.
The Landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology
In this article, I share the story behind these moves from AAS to HLS, and the landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology.
Activity Analysis Network #8: Re-engagement and Co-becoming
On the final day of 2025, marking the close of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, I write this newsletter to release a new possible book, Meta-frameworks: The Self-Life-Mind Schema and Other Creative Heuristics, to close a multi-year journey of theorizing creative life.
The Essence of the Concept System
A concept system is a network of concepts with a coordinating mechanism. In this article, we explore it from six perspectives: scale, hierarchy, boundary, function, representation, and genidentity.