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.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
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 ...
Weave the Curativity: When Advancing Dances with Analyzing
The present article adds a third application to the Dramatic Life Pattern series: Weave-AA, the alternating dance of Advancing and Analyzing woven into the structural space of Weave-the-Theory.
Life-as-Activity: The Weave-the-Life Framework (v3.0)
In April 2026, while working on the Weave 42 project, I developed a new version of the Weave Basic Form, a 4×4 edition that I call the Weave 16 diagram. Based on the new diagram, I created the Weave-the-Life framework (v3.0) and used it to curate 16 key concepts of the Life-as-Activity Approach.
Dramatic Life Pattern: The Watershed I Lived By
Each time, the word "watershed" appeared as a natural descriptor for a structural moment that changed the shape of what came before and after. In this article, I formally name and develop this pattern as Creative Watershed.