Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

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

GO Square: Mapping ACS, SDP, and Other Theoretical Enterprises

This article shifts focus from the map to the territory. Specifically, it applies the GO Square framework to map the five theoretical enterprises that currently operate on the GO Theory platform.

Spatial Heuristics: A Thematic Trip and a Possible Book

the development of a creative theme called "Closure and Unfolding" – a pattern captured in 2025 and recently developed into a plan for possible book.

[活动分析与干预] 第一讲:安身立命

活动世界论 (World of Activity) 延续了宋明儒学的跨学科问题意识,但以“活动”取代“心性”作为连接 Self 和 Life 的枢纽——不是通过道德(先秦儒学),不是通过觉悟(佛家),不是通过心性(宋明儒学),而是通过一个人在活动世界中持续的、专注的展开。

Activity Analysis Network #21 — One Half-Year, Eight Possible Books

The next regular issue is scheduled for July 15, following the usual biweekly rhythm. But today I want to send an off-cycle note — not organized around the usual Flow–Focus–Center–Circle schema, just four things.

Strategic Developmental Psychology (Possible Book, 2026)

Situation, Gejunction, and Supportive Self-Actualization

Introduction: Strategic Developmental Psychology (v2.0)

From the ACS project to the SDP project

SDP: Gejunction — A Unit of Synthesis within GO Theory

This chapter introduces Gejunction, GO Theory's most recent unit of synthesis. It begins by situating Gejunction within GO Theory's relationship to SDP, and within the cross-disciplinary method —

Preface: One World, Many Dreams

That is what SDP offers: not a map of the seasons, but a framework for navigating the specific, irrepeatable landscape of one's own life — with its own constraints, its own resources, its own timing, and its own Dream.

SDP: Revisiting the "Situation" Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

Viewed through SLM's own vocabulary, "situation" in every one of these debates functions as a unit of analysis, never a unit of synthesis...

Supportance and The Weave-the-Project Framework (v1.0, 2025)

A connection between Supportance Theory and the Project Engagement Approach