Weave the Theory: Unfolding the Way of Curation
What I did not expect was that, years later, my own explorations in this direction would lead to a similar situation.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Weave the Theory: A Case Study of the AAS Framework Development
The AAS case adds a methodological contribution that none of the previous cases feature. It demonstrates the Aspects-to-Approaches crossing as the originating move of theoretical work — a crossing that happened in less than a month ...
Weave the Curativity: When Advancing Dances with Analyzing
The present article adds a third application to the Dramatic Life Pattern series: Weave-AA, the alternating dance of Advancing and Analyzing woven into the structural space of Weave-the-Theory.
Life-as-Activity: The Weave-the-Life Framework (v3.0)
In April 2026, while working on the Weave 42 project, I developed a new version of the Weave Basic Form, a 4×4 edition that I call the Weave 16 diagram. Based on the new diagram, I created the Weave-the-Life framework (v3.0) and used it to curate 16 key concepts of the Life-as-Activity Approach.
Dramatic Life Pattern: The Watershed I Lived By
Each time, the word "watershed" appeared as a natural descriptor for a structural moment that changed the shape of what came before and after. In this article, I formally name and develop this pattern as Creative Watershed.
Activity Analysis Network #15: Dream, Watershed, and Dramatic Life Pattern
The Landscape of Strategic Developmental Psychology (SDP, v1.2) features three dimensions: The Curativity of Mind, Supportive Life Discovery, and Dramatic Life Pattern. Notably, both the RR practice and the Watershed are identified as examples of Dramatic Life Pattern.
Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Journey of Developing a New Practice
Throughout this process, I found myself frequently drawing on the Revisiting–Rebuilding (RR) strategy to advance various knowledge frameworks — returning to earlier work, reactivating dormant concepts, and rebuilding them from a more developed theoretical standpoint.
Appropriating Activity Theory #15: Before, After, and Watershed
After editing that chronicle, “watershed” became a new theme for me. I began to wonder whether similar dividing lines existed in my decade‑long journey of appropriating Activity Theory. This issue of the column is dedicated to that theme.
[Case Study] When the Circle Changes the Center
It is presented here as a case study in Supportive Life Discovery (SLD) — specifically as an instance of the Achievement Chain in action.
The World of Activity Toolkit (v2.0, 2026)
The simple four-part schema that began as a descriptive map of ecological forms has grown into the primary organizing structure of an entire approach to creative life development.