Platform as Infoniche

Introduce the Infoniche framework for understanding the structure of the Developmental Platform.

by Oliver Ding

Feb 26, 2021

This article is part of Oliver Ding’s 2021 book draft, Platform for Development: The Ecology of Adult Development in the 21st century.

The last article introduced a new concept Developmental Platform for interdisciplinary developmental study. It is defined as a social environment that could strongly support adult development in various ways. I consider it an intermediate concept that aims to connect theory and practice.

For practice, the Development Platform is the core of the Platform-for-Development framework. For theory, the Development Platform offers a creative space for testing my theoretical project: the Ecological Practice approach.

This article will review several theoretical ideas on the environment of adult development and adopt the Ecological Practice approach for understanding the Developmental Platform. In particular, I shall introduce the Infoniche framework to conceptualize the structure of the Developmental Platform.

The outcome is a three-level model which includes Zone (micro level), Project (mezzo level), and Platform-ba (macro level). Furthermore, I introduce the Ecological Offer framework for the…