Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center

Activity Analysis Network #26: Developmental Strategy, Weave, and Possibility

This issue covers the first half of October. It records the completion of the Developmental Strategy book, the second round of the Chinese lecture series Activity Analysis and Intervention, and a new framework that came out of a conversation with an old friend.

The Weave-the-Possibility Framework (v1.0, 2026)

This article first introduces my friend's creative journey, then examines it through the Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit, before explaining the origin and four weave-points of the new framework.

Epilogue: Subjectivity and Strategy

To study strategy is not merely to study how people make plans or pursue objectives. It is to investigate how subjects act, think, and develop through their engagement with the world—and how, through that engagement, they continually participate in shaping the lives they lead.

Introduction: Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective

Rather than treating strategy as a concept belonging to a particular discipline, project, or group of people, I approach it as a theme that has developed across my work and can now be reconsidered from the perspective of GO Theory.

Developmental Strategy: Strategic Actor and the Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit (Book, 2026)

Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective

GO Theory: The Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit (v2.0)

Expand a framework to a 4*3 toolkit

Developmental Strategy: Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective

GO Theory now contains a rich ecosystem of meta-frameworks. To revisit the “strategy” theme, I do not need all of them. I select three lenses, each offering a distinct perspective on strategy as a developmental phenomenon.

Lifechain: the Potential–Focus–Actual Schema (v1, 2025)

The Potential–Focus–Actual Schema describes a dynamic cycle within the Subject–Object relationship, explaining how potential possibilities of action become actualized through focus and reflection.

[Creative Note] The Concept Dynamics of Confucian Allusions

After the collection was finished, I kept thinking about it. Then I realized that I already had a tool for looking at it: the Concept Dynamics framework.

后记：儒家典故的概念动力学

我通常在编辑书稿和文集之后，会写概要、前言、后记和附录。关于书稿文集的正文内容由概要负责，而整个项目带来的一些副产品(by-product)则表达在后面三种文章中。这篇前言带出的副产品，其实是如何把概念动力学框架应用分析和思考 [文化典故] 的情境框架。[儒家典故]是一个测试案例。