Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

[活动分析与干预] 第七讲:事上磨炼

儒家关心的是“事上成仁”,活动事业论关心的是“何以成事”。两者不是替代关系,而是“背景”与“前景”的关系。儒家的功夫论为活动事业论提供了一个深厚的本土语境,而活动事业论则为儒家的“事上磨炼”提供了一个可操作的分析语言。

[Meta-Framework] Mapping Knowledge Elements and Meaning Control System

The journey from George Kelly’s Grid Form to the birth of the Strategic Life Development project reveals the true power of meta-frameworks: they are not merely static records of thought, but evolutionary algorithms that pave the way for future thinking.

Activity Analysis Network #25: The Gejunction of Knowledge Engagement

This issue releases a new thematic collection: The Gejunction of Knowledge Engagement (Collection, v1, 2026), the outcome of the Revisiting-and-Ruilding the Knowledge Strategy Series (2025).

[Dramatic Life Pattern] Enterprise Relay

Enterprise Relay is a Dramatic Life Pattern in which an important enterprise moves forward through a succession of projects, with the enterprise being carried from one project to another by changing engagements.

Revisiting-and-Rebuilding Knowledge Strategy Through the Gejunction Lens

The Knowledge Strategy trilogy was completed in June 2025. What I now call the Knowledge Strategy series extends that timeline: later manuscripts carry it through the second half of 2025 and up to SDP.

The Gejunction of Knowledge Engagement (Collection, v1, 2026)

Revisiting-and-Rebuilding Knowledge Strategy through the Gejunction lens.

The Weave-the-Strategy Toolkit (v1.0, 2026)

In October 2025, I introduced the Weave-the-Strategy Framework (v1.0), which curates several sub-models of my Strategic Life Theory around four concepts: Thematic Space, Social Landscape, Strategic Agency and Creative Workfield. Based on this framework, this article presents a three-level toolkit.

The Knowledge Strategy Series

Revisit and rebuild the Knowledge Strategy Trilogy and Beyond

Thematic Space Theory: A Toolkit as a Specific Theory

This article was originally published on TALE’s website on Medium.com. On September 29, 2026, I republished it on the Activity Analysis Center’s website to provide background on Thematic Space Theory for the Gejunction project, where Thematic Space is considered one aspect of Gejunction.

The Thematic Space of Knowledge Engagement

Thematic Space is not a single-level concept. It has different positions and functions in different theoretical levels.