Developmental Projects (book, v1, 2025)
The Project Engagement Approach to Adult Development
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Appropriating Activity Theory #6: Engaging with Andy Blunden's Creative Ideas
The student had to become a creator before he could adequately teach the teacher's ideas.
The Concept of "Developmental Project"
The Living Way of the “Developmental Project” Concept
Activity Analysis Network #6: Project as Social Environment
From November 15 to November 30, I worked on editing a new possible book: Developmental Projects: The Project Engagement Approach to Adult Development.
Toward a Project-Oriented Ecology of Adult Development
Vygotsky’s “Ecological Mind” and a New Approach to Adult Development
The Cultural Projection Model (2025)
The approach expands Activity Theory’s internalization-externalization principle by introducing the “Outside — Projecting — Inside” triad as a basic ecological form to describe how people engage with social environments, particularly with projects.
Activity Analysis Network #5: Zone, Camp, and Project
In this issue (#5), three new articles explore the Ecological Camp Framework, its meta-diagram Tripartness, and the story behind it. I also published a long article about the Creative Identity Engagement Framework, which is part of the Project Engagement Approach (version 3.1).
The Ecological Camp Framework (2018)
Three case studies of the Ecological Camp Frameworks.
The Tripartness Meta-Diagram and Diagram Blending
The Tripartness meta-diagram can be expanded into what I call a Diagram Network — or, put differently, it can be seen as the result of a process of Diagram Blending.
Appropriating Activity Theory #5: Kids are Our Teachers (2018)
Interestingly, this story resonates with the research of Cole and Barker on children conducted many years ago.