Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center (Page 2)

Education as Anticipatory Activity

As we continue to develop the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology approach, education serves as a rich domain for exploring how human beings collectively navigate uncertain futures through the creation, curation, and transformation of concept systems.

Appropriating Activity Theory #9: The ECHO Way (2021)

From a 2021 manuscript to a 2026 live dialogue: Following the continuous ECHO Journey as it expands from individual reflection to social projection.

The Landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology

In this article, I share the story behind these moves from AAS to HLS, and the landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology.

Activity Analysis Network #8: Re-engagement and Co-becoming

On the final day of 2025, marking the close of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, I write this newsletter to release a new possible book, Meta-frameworks: The Self-Life-Mind Schema and Other Creative Heuristics, to close a multi-year journey of theorizing creative life.

The Essence of the Concept System

A concept system is a network of concepts with a coordinating mechanism. In this article, we explore it from six perspectives: scale, hierarchy, boundary, function, representation, and genidentity.

A Case Study of The Weave-the-Theory Framework

Developing a meta-framework to understand Cultural Innovation

Appropriating Activity Theory #8: Stage, Map, and Moves

The seed from 2017 has now grown into the History {Life[Self(Body)]} Framework (v3.0), a meta-framework for the Meta-frameworks project.

Activity Analysis Network #7: The Piano House, Activity, and Mind

In this issue (#7), two new articles explore the Activity as Container conceptual deck I created in 2017, and the story behind it.

Appropriating Activity Theory #7: The Piano House and Activity as Container

The "Activity-as-Container" conceptual deck was part of a four-project creative journey from July 2017 to Feb 2018.

Revisiting the "Activity - Relation" Framework (2017)

Deconstructing Oliver Ding's "Activity-as- Container" Conceptual Deck