Marinate the Mind: The Living Coordinate of Knowledge Engagement
what happens inside a single creator's activity, when a thematic focus first appears, and how does that focus either grow into a lasting creative center or fail to?
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Creative Diagramming: The House of Circle Dynamics
World of Activity looks at this terrain from the perspective of the individual. It traces how a single creative life develops — from Flow to Focus to Center. Circle is where this individual perspective reaches its limit and opens onto the collective.
Creative Diagramming: The House of Flow Dynamics
In the World of Activity approach, I treat Flow as a diachronic development — a process that unfolds over time.
Creative Diagramming: The House of OODA Dynamics
This article focuses on the OODA map: The House of OODA Dynamics.
The Relationfield of Knowledge Engagement
This article asks what actually happens when two knowledge creators meet. Using RelationField, a framework completed in 2026, this article supplies that missing layer: reading a series of cases, from a single brief exchange to eighteen years of correspondence, Episode by Episode.
Creative Diagramming: The House of Focus Dynamics
This article is part of a series of posts that introduce a new series thematic maps for the World of Activity Approach, especially the FFCC model (Flow-Focus-Center-Circle).
Creative Diagramming: The House of Center Dynamics
Inspired by Daniel Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life (1978), I began to ask: if a Center could be seen as having a life of its own, what would its seasons look like?
Creative Diagramming: The House of World of Activity
Today I updated the World of Activity page on the Activity Analysis Center website. After completing the work, I just designed a new thematic map (see the diagram above) for fun.
However, this new design brings a new insight. This is what the article about.
Activity Analysis Network #23: 安身立命 (Ānshēn Lìmìng), Gejunction in the Wild, and GO Theory (III)
From Theoretical Development to Practical Analysis — The August Exploration
Gejunction in the Wild (Collection, v1,2026)
This collection is a record of an exploration—a case study of a theorist in transition, using his own theoretical tools to understand his own situation, in real time.