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Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

Weave the Method: Part and Whole, Synchrony and Diachrony, Inside and Outside

This article reviews the three chapters that constitute Part 6, identifies the structural tensions that run through all three, and draws out what this convergence reveals

How to Navigate the Symbolic Universe: Three Principles of Spatial Heuristics

how does one actually use GO Square to locate, analyze, and trace the movement of concept systems?

Unit of Analysis, Level of Analysis, and Configurational Theory

The central argument is simple: "unit of analysis" operates differently in four distinct positions within the knowledge ecology of a theoretical tradition.

GO Square: Mapping the Symbolic Universe

This article introduces GO Square, an operational framework for systematically mapping the Symbolic Universe—the intersection of the Cultural System and the Historical System.

Methodological Empathy: The HITED Framework and the Theory-Method Fit

Applying the RR practice to my 2022 HITED article reveals what was already present in that work and what was missing.

Generative Confluence: Theoretical Activity, Theoretical Enterprise, and Theoretical Platform

In May 2026, I recognized that the trio of concepts I had recently developed — Theoretical Activity, Theoretical Enterprise, and Theoretical Platform — was itself a product of a smaller, nested confluence.

The Aspects - Approaches Fit

This article addresses the silence directly. It traces the Aspects-Approaches distinction back to its methodological source, explains what Weave-the-Theory adds to that source...

Clay Spinuzzi: Mediating Concept and Network of Projects

A dialogue between two theoretical traditions may generate mediating concepts...But it is not always sufficient to establish a distinctive knowledge niche.

From Personal Epistemology to Knowledge Ecology

This is the Postscript of a new possible book: Weave the Theory: The Art of Theoretical Activity and Knowledge Ecology

Activity Analysis Network #17: Weave the Theory

The release of Weave the Theroy marks the moment when the knowledge engagement exploration reaches the knowledge ecology stage.