Design-oriented Project Engagement
The Discover-Design-Deliver Model provides what the six ACS meta-frameworks could not: an operational middle layer that makes the core movement of cultural development concrete and actionable.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Revisiting, Rebuilding, Re-engaging with Past Selves
This collection of essays is built around exactly that missing dimension. It begins not with Possible Selves but with Past Selves — the creative identities a person has actually enacted across the succession of projects, roles, and engagements that constitute a creative life.
Culture as Anticipatory Activity
This article integrates three recently developed concepts—Mindentity, Folkentity, and Worldentity—through the Agency Cascade model, and reads this integration against the background of the "Culture as Thematic Enterprise" framework.
The "Cognitive Hydrology" Trilogy
Through Creative Life Curation, through thematic exploration, through consciously engaging with one's own cognitive flood, a person can transform the ordinary experience of daily life into sustained creative development.
Folkentity: The Object of Cultural Projection
Mindentity, Folkentity, and Worldentity
Thematic Development Study
The purpose of the article is to define it as a new form of research practice and methodology.
Appropriating Activity Theory #11: When Two Students Aren't Enough (2023)
These four threshold moments at the school have taught me something fundamental about agency and structure.
Activity Analysis Network #11: Boundary, Givenness, and Agency Threshold
Building on the four boundaries of World of Life, a new concept called Worldentity was developed as a new member of the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology (ACS) framework.
The World of Activity (v1.0, 2022) Framework: Theoretical Foundation and Generative Confluence
This article traces the theoretical development of the World of Activity (v1.0, 2022) framework, which defines every individual's experiential horizon through four boundaries: Heaven (天), Earth (地), Birth (生), and Death (死).
A GAP Project and a Generative Confluence Journey
Anchoring the Center refers to searching for a meta-framework to support a potential focus in transforming into a creative center by curating relevant creative elements together.