Frameworks

The map updated today reflects a knowledge enterprise that has grown from a focused exploration of themes and concepts into something broader: a theory of how concept systems develop across individual and social life, supported by a coherent ontology of the social world.

The 2015 framework was not wrong — it was, in retrospect, theoretically necessary. The practice had anticipated the theory. The four perspectives were already there, already corresponding to four boundaries,...

Based on observation and personal experience, I identified eight recurring themes, which correspond to eight turning periods, dividing into the regular group and the special group.

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).

The Living Coordinate model was originally composed of two parts: a 3D coordinate system and a series of circles. The LARGE Method extends this structure by adopting a 4D coordinate and five circles.

A personal Life Coordinate is a conceptual framework that maps an individual’s orientation within the world of activity, integrating both worldview and life orientation.

Deconstructing Oliver Ding's "Activity-as- Container" Conceptual Deck

The approach expands Activity Theory’s internalization-externalization principle by introducing the “Outside — Projecting — Inside” triad as a basic ecological form to describe how people engage with social environments, particularly with projects.