Diagrams

I rediscovered a diagram I made in 2022 — The Shaman's Mandala — which maps four concepts from the Ecological Practice Approach onto a four-boundary structure: Affordance, Supportance, Attachance, and Curativity, each occupying a distinct position.

Beyond those edges, a second square frames the four negative frontiers: Mystification, Dogmatism, Echo Chamber, and Tragedy of the Commons. They are not distant dangers. They occupy the zone just outside the working space, adjacent to every boundary, always within drift.

The Tripartness meta-diagram can be expanded into what I call a Diagram Network — or, put differently, it can be seen as the result of a process of Diagram Blending.

The Dialectic Room is a meta-diagram designed to apply dialectical logic to manage structural tensions. Its origin lies in the “germ-cell” diagram of Project-oriented Activity Theory.

I present real-world examples of applying the Activity System Model using the Creative Diagramming method.

The ARCH Visual Language for Collaborative Project Engagement and Intersubjective Design

We can also apply the ARCH model to discuss Synergy Effects between knowledge centers. Also, we can use Thematic Landscape Map to discover Synergy Effects.

In 2020, I used the ARCH diagram to curate Alan P. Fiske's Relational Models Theory and Clay Spinuzzi’s typology of Activity.