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Oliver Ding

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.

Worldentity: The Cultural Givenness of Thematic Creation

Building the Ontology of Thematic Creation