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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Epilogue: A New Member of the Cognitive Hydrology Series

This collection covers two weeks. It is the shortest scale in the series, and it shows the rhythm of a project that is compressed into a few days of intense work and can still be read in its own right. With it the series covers a range of time scales from two weeks to forty years.

Spatial Heuristics, Strategic Curation, and Ecological Opportunities

The coordinate was not part of that beginning. It came later, when I looked at the spatial heuristic on its own and asked what kind of structure it had.

The Landscape of Spatial Heuristics

The ten case studies in this collection are not isolated fragments. Read together, they form a vast, interconnected landscape. To understand this landscape, we can use the Weave-the-Theory framework to map its structure.

Weave the Theory: From Weave the Strategy to Thematic Engagement

The Weave knowledge system has many knowledge frameworks. During the two-week RR project on theme, I used two of them most: the Weave 16 diagram and the Weave-the-Theory framework. This article focuses on the second.

Weave 16: From Weave the Life to Weave the Theme

Weave 16 is the point at which the Weave dimension of the spatial heuristic coordinate began to develop. It was first used to curate the life-as-activity approach, and then to hold theme.

Spatial Heuristics: Engaging with the Path of Creative Life

It also asks what the spatial heuristic does when the space is not a model's thematic space, but a route I have walked in the body.

Spatial Heuristics: From Local to Global

In October I did not extend the model. I made it smaller, moved the smaller version into another framework, and then placed the result back onto the larger map it came from.

Spatial Heuristics: GO Theory and Four Aspects of Cognitive Hydrology

This article asks where Cognitive Hydrology stands, and it answers the question on two maps. The first is the World of Life framework, within which the enterprise is one of several. The second is the HLS map of the social world – which is the ontological setting of the GO Theory

Spatial Heuristics: The Unfolding of Structural Symmetry

The same symmetry that once linked two enterprises now links two books, and it now carries a principle that neither discipline could carry alone.

The Two-Week RR Project on Theme: A Record of What Happened

This document records the two-week Revisiting-and-Rebuilding (RR) project on theme, from 15 to 31 October 2026. It tells what happened, in the order in which it happened, with the dates, the texts, and the articles that came out of it.