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            <title><![CDATA[Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Strategy for Creative Identity Development (Possible Book)]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Being by Doing: World of Activity and Creative Life Theory (v3.0)]]></title>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Possible Book</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/518/1*GFffbOPa8LInYlXbxPJJOQ.png" /></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*eXkzbmW8i-wckFLRxv-XFw.jpeg" /></figure><p>This article introduces a new possible book: <strong><em>Being and Doing: World of Activity and Creative Life Theory (v3.0)</em></strong>. It presents the core frameworks and concepts that underpin the theory, showing how a <strong>creative self</strong>, a <strong>creative enterprise</strong>, and a <strong>creative mind</strong> develop through practice.</p><h3>Contents</h3><h4>A Creative Shift<br>How to name the new whole?<br>What’s it about?<br>How does the new book organize?<br>Why Being by Doing?<br>A New Possible Book</h4><ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Part 1:Theorizing Creative Life</li><li>Part 2: Creative Self and World of Activity</li><li>Part 3: Creative Self and Curativity</li><li>Part 4: Creative Center and Social Moves</li><li>Part 5: Creative Center and Thematic Enterprise</li><li>Part 6: Creative Center and Social Landscape</li><li>Part 7: Creative Mind and Mental Moves</li><li>Part 8: Creative Mind and Strategic Agency</li><li>Part 9: Creative Engagement with Givenness</li></ul><p>Two years ago, I edited <a href="https://medium.com/p/03b569e20910"><strong><em>Creative Life Theory (v2.0): Building A Knowledge Enterprise</em></strong></a>, collecting articles to represent the landscape of a theoretical approach for understanding knowledge workers’ creative life.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*CSGAIy32pDYU6B0l.png" /></figure><p>After October 2023, the approach has evolved into a new stage, especially over the past 12 months. Here are several highlights of this creative journey:</p><ul><li>In 2024, the <em>Strategic Moves</em> project led to a book titled <em>Strategic Life</em>. In January 2025, the <em>Strategic Life Theory</em> was born. The shift from Creative Life to Strategic Life inspired me to think about my creative journey as a process of developing a general theory of life.</li><li>At the end of 2024 and early 2025, I decided to move from individual knowledge engagement to collective cultural development. It marks the beginning of a new era in the Creative Life Theory.</li><li>From March to June 2025, I worked on the <em>Wonder and Wander</em> project, reflecting on my creative journey from 2019 to 2025, and closed the <em>Building a Knowledge Enterprise</em> journey. This marks the end of phase I of Creative Life Theory.</li><li>From the end of 2024 to June 2025, by working on the <em>GO Theory</em> project, I ran a creative dialogue between Creative Life Theory and the Ecological Practice Approach. Phase I of the project led to the <em>World of Activity</em> toolkit (v1, 2025).</li><li>From late June to July 2025, I had a trip to Fuzhou, China. During the trip, I wrote a series of notes by using the <em>World of Activity</em> toolkit to reflect on an autobiography I wrote in 2015 and the trip itself. The result is my first Kindle book, titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ6TV1FV/ref=sr_1_1"><em>Homecoming: A Thematic Trip and the World of Activity Approach</em></a><em>,</em> released on September 7, 2025.</li></ul><p>There are three major changes between version 2.0 (2023) and version 3.0 (2025) of Create Life Theory.</p><ul><li>Expand from a specific theory to a general theory</li><li>The “Self-Life-Mind” schema serves as a new meta-framework; the old one, the Creative Course framework, remains as a reference.</li><li>The concept of the <em>World of Activity</em> originally served as a unit of analysis in version 1.0 (2022) and a core concept of the Creative Course framework in version 2.0 (2023). In 2025, it was developed as an independent concept; now, the Creative Course framework is one of the approaches to understanding the concept.</li></ul><p>These changes are not a revolution, but an expansion. My creations from old versions remain, but they are reorganized with new creations.</p><p>However, there is a significant transformation of the creative journey.</p><h3>A Creative Shift</h3><p>In June 2025, I discovered the “Theorizing Creative Life” theme from my journey between 2014 and 2025, and classified it into four phases:</p><ul><li>Early Phase: The Ecological Practice Approach (2014–2020)</li><li>Middle Phase: The Project Engagement Approach (2019–2024)</li><li>Late Phase: Creative Life Theory (2022, 2023, 2025)</li><li>A New Beginning: Philosophy and Culture (2025)</li></ul><p>By using the Self-Life-Mind schema, I made the “Theorizing Creative Life” Landscape on June 2, 2025. See the diagram below.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*moyW5gWQ78zlzJTH.jpeg" /></figure><p>Suddenly, I was shocked by the pattern within the diagram. The new landscape represents a 3+1 structure, revealing a new pattern I didn’t notice in my creative journey.</p><p>Over the years, I maintained boundaries between these three theoretical approaches because they are influenced by different theoretical traditions.</p><p>Although I even did several creative dialogues to make new knowledge frameworks, I never thought about integrating them into one.</p><p>However, the “Theorizing Creative Life” landscape presents a new pattern to me. At some point, a set of related ideas has already been curated as a new, meaningful whole. It emerged as a new approach, not replacing any of the old approaches.</p><p>The three approaches could still be developed by following their original trajectory. The new one starts at a coordinate origin, defining a position of a new center, with the potential to grow into a new theoretical enterprise.</p><p>In the diagram above, I selected three core concepts, based on the Self-Life-Mind schema:</p><ul><li><strong>World of Activity</strong> [Ontology | Self | Philosophy]</li><li><strong>Creative Center</strong> [Realism | Life | Sociology]</li><li><strong>Thematic Space</strong> [Hermeneutics | Mind | Psychology]</li></ul><p>The concept of “Thematic Space” was born from the Ecological Practice Approach and refers to the representation of cognitive space within the mind.</p><p>The concept of “Creative Center” was developed from the Knowledge Center project, especially the perspective of the Life-as-Project Approach, and my practice of running the Activity Analysis Center and other knowledge centers.</p><p>The concept of “World of Activity” was originally part of Creative Life Theory (v2.0, 2023). However, recently, I detached it from the theory and developed it as an independent concept to curate a series of concepts together.</p><h3>How to name the new whole?</h3><p>To emphasize the “Theorizing Creative Life” theme, I kept the name <em>Creative Life Theory </em>but upgraded it from v2.0 to v3.0, marking its expansion from a purely scientific project to a full-scale theoretical enterprise.</p><p>In the “Theorizing Creative Life” project, we successfully established “Creative Life” as an ontological concept, separating it from particular theoretical approaches framed as epistemological perspectives. Moreover, a series of related concepts, such as “World of Activity,” “Creative Center,” and “Thematic Space,” are also developed as ontological concepts.</p><p>When viewed together, these ontological concepts form the center of a new theoretical enterprise. Supporting this core are a number of epistemological frameworks and operational toolkits that enable both theoretical development and practical application. Examples include:</p><ul><li>The World of Activity Toolkit</li><li>The Center Development Toolkit</li><li>The Social Moves / Mental Moves / Strategic Moves Framework</li><li>The Creative Life Curaiton / Strategic Life Narrative Method</li><li>The Creative Diagramming Method</li></ul><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*_u2Lp7ESdk7T6uTT.jpeg" /></figure><p>This integrated system of ontological concepts, knowledge frameworks, and practice-oriented tools constitutes <strong>Creative Life Theory (v3.0)</strong>.</p><h3>What’s it about?</h3><p>In 2022, I worked on the <em>Creative Life Curation</em> project, which led to four book drafts that form version 1.0 of Creative Life Theory. At that time, the primary focus was on turning individual life experiences into creative achievements. A major theoretical resource was Curativity Theory, a sub-theory of the Ecological Practice Approach.</p><p>The project also led to a theoretical curation, aiming to answer a question:</p><blockquote><strong>How can we find a path to achieve a Creative Life connecting individual actions and collective culture?</strong></blockquote><p>Though there are many important aspects of creative life, I selected the transformation between <strong>Individual Actions</strong> and <strong>Collective Culture</strong> as a significant aspect of Creative Life.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*k0adoG7pzcSp5VKClvaaJg.png" /></figure><p>Originally, in 2021, I only considered “Activity” as the mediation of the transformation. However, I realized that this is one path of Creative Life. If we adopt more theoretical perspectives, we can find more paths to Creative Life.</p><p>Inspired by theoretical sociologist Ping-keung Lui’s meta-framework — the “Ontology — Realism — Hermeneutics” schema — I curated several approaches and frameworks together to define the foundation of Creative Life Theory (v1.0).</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*uAHaGCInkxkaMqw9kpxYEA.png" /></figure><p>In 2023, I read Lui’s book <em>Gaze, Actions, and the Social World (</em>2007<em>) and adopted his </em>Subjectivist Structuralism, which was introduced in the book as part of his theoretical sociology, to develop a meta-framework for Creative Life Theory (v2.0).</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*09ko16ACiiUpKugW.png" /></figure><p>Why did I create this meta-framework? At that time, I worked on several projects, including the <em>Knowledge Center</em> project, the <em>Value Circle</em> project, the <em>Universal Reference</em> project, and the <em>Anticipatory Activity System (AAS)</em> project. The <em>Creative Course</em> framework served as a meta-framework to organize these projects into a meaningful whole.</p><p>From 2023 to 2024, my creative journey centered on building a network of knowledge centers. It was part of the journey of <em>Building a Knowledge Enterprise</em>. Thus, I defined it as the subtitle of a book draft about Creative Life Theory (v2.0) in October 2023.</p><p>A sign was also introduced for Creative Life Theory (v2.0). See the diagram below.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*Z3i0Pdr4vPl_vob7.png" /></figure><p>The Square refers to the <em>World of Activity</em> for Knowledge Engagement<strong>. </strong>The Circle refers to the <em>Knowledge Center,</em> which is the container of Knowledge Engagement. Finally, the Sandglass refers to the S-T-O Tendency. See the diagram below.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*9IfQ2wLEdLPf19eP.png" /></figure><p>I use the S-T-O Tendency to highlight three keywords of the above framework:</p><ul><li><strong>Subjectification</strong>: turning the world into a person’s experience</li><li><strong>Crystallize Thematically</strong>: discovering a match between individual life themes and collective cultural themes.</li><li><strong>Objectification</strong>: turning the person’s experience into artifacts for the world</li></ul><p>The S-T-O Tendency was discovered in the <em>Creative Life Curation</em> project. It was also a major part of Creative Life Theory (v1.0).</p><p>This sign indicates an essential theme of Creative Life Theory: <em>Creative Self and the World of Activity</em>. While the World of Activity is a large life container for a creative person, its boundary frames the scope of possibility and activity, while its inside is alive, constantly nurturing creativity and curativity.</p><p>Creative Life Theory is all about exploring the boundary and inner dynamics of the World of Activity, which in turn supports Creative Self Development and Cultural Innovation Development.</p><p>In Creative Life Theory (v3.0), the sign expanded into more forms, including a series of members. More details can be found in <a href="https://medium.com/tale500/thematic-space-theory-the-landscape-of-world-of-activity-075bf8cd8461">The Landscape of “World of Activity”</a>. The diagram below shows the World of Activity Toolkit (v1.1, 2025).</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*kb471n7JPDxm-JCcVDPAnw.jpeg" /></figure><p>In this new book, the sub-frameworks of the toolkit are assigned to different parts, each addressing a distinct theme.</p><h3>How does the new book organize?</h3><p>The new book draft, <strong><em>Being by Doing: World of Activity and Creative Life Theory (v3.0)</em></strong><em>, </em>aims to curate a collection of articles reflecting the creative journey and the landscape of Creative Life Theory (v3.0).</p><p>Based on the Self-Life-Mind schema, the book is organized around a main question:</p><blockquote>How does a person achieve a creative life and creative development?</blockquote><p>The main question is further divided into three sub-questions:</p><ul><li>How does a Creative Self develop?</li><li>How does a Creative Center develop?</li><li>How does a Creative Mind develop</li></ul><p>The main body of the book is organized around these questions. It is divided into nine parts:</p><ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Part 1:Theorizing Creative Life</li><li>Part 2: Creative Self and World of Activity</li><li>Part 3: Creative Self and Curativity</li><li>Part 4: Creative Center and Social Moves</li><li>Part 5: Creative Center and Thematic Enterprise</li><li>Part 6: Creative Center and Social Landscape</li><li>Part 7: Creative Mind and Mental Moves</li><li>Part 8: Creative Mind and Strategic Agency</li><li>Part 9: Creative Engagement with Givenness</li></ul><h3>Why Being by Doing?</h3><p>Finally, the title of the book, <em>Being by Doing</em>, appeared as a principle of the <em>Life as Project</em> approach, which I worked on in the first half of 2022. Later, I developed the <em>Universal Reference</em> model and the concept of World of Activity in the second half of 2022.</p><p>Now, I find the connection between these two concepts. The “Being” is linked to “Human Being,” understood as People. In ancient Chinese culture, the essence of a person refers to the life course of a person. To understand a person, one needs to understand the activities of their life. Initially, the concept of World of Activity was defined by the “Heaven — Earth — Birth — Death” schema (see the diagram below). Life is about everything between Birth and Death.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*8G-s1fGveftJW91w.png" /></figure><p>If we connect <em>Being by Doing</em> and the concept of <em>World of Activity</em>, then the notion of “Life (Self)” becomes easier to understand. To be a creative self, a person needs to engage in creative activity. Doing creative projects brings the creative self from projection to actualization. This echoes what Howard Gruber says, “To be oneself one must do these things; to do these things one must be oneself.”</p><p><em>Being by Doing</em>! There is no division between Creative Self and Creative Life.</p><h3>A New Possible Book</h3><p>On June 23, 2025, I edited a book draft titled <a href="https://medium.com/call4/container-thinking-book-v1-0-2025-d0c0cfe876ea"><em>Container Thinking: The Ecological Practice Approach (v4.0)</em></a>. The historical development of the approach can be framed in five versions:</p><ul><li>2019: The “Toolkit” version (Beta)</li><li>2020: The “Germ-cell” version (1.0)</li><li>2021: The “Hierarchy” version (2.0)</li><li>2023: The “Social (Cognition)” version (3.0)</li><li>2025: The “Meta” version (4.0)</li></ul><p>The historical development of Creative Life Theory can be defined in three versions:</p><ul><li>2022: The “Creative Life Curation” version (v1.0)</li><li>2023: The “Knowledge Engagement” version (v2.0)</li><li>2025: The “World of Activity” version (v3.0)</li></ul><p>It is now time to edit a new possible book for Creative Life Theory (v3.0).</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*opp_dNuvOwy70ZTM.jpeg" /></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*eXkzbmW8i-wckFLRxv-XFw.jpeg" /></figure><p>Both possible books tell a story of the organic growth of a theoretical enterprise. Each version contributes to the enterprise by adding new knowledge elements while preserving the Genidentity of the knowledge system — its core value and uniqueness.</p><p>Being by Doing is divided into nine parts. Some numbers about the possible book:</p><ul><li>9 parts</li><li>63 articles</li><li>Total 1,146 min read</li><li>Total 303,690 words (about 607 single-spaced pages)</li></ul><h3>Introduction</h3><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-the-landscape-of-creative-life-theory-v3-0-and-two-meta-frameworks-10394440dc9a"><em>The Landscape of Creative Life Theory (v3.0) and Two Meta-Frameworks</em></a><br><em>16 min — Sept 17, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-self-life-mind-schema-and-how-to-achieve-a-creative-life-96479298f907?sk=833a65ca0c755d94292b8bb94bbc4c5b"><em>The “Self-Life-Mind” schema and how to achieve a creative life</em></a><br>15 min — Sept 19, 2025</li></ul><h3>Part 1: Theorizing Creative Life</h3><p>This part presents a one-year exploration (September 9, 2024 — September 9, 2025) of Creative Life Theory, highlighting key projects, articles, and book drafts that map the evolving landscape of creative life across self, enterprise, and knowledge.</p><p>A major article, <a href="https://medium.com/call4/gap-project-the-theorizing-creative-life-project-0da439b3fa10"><em>[GAP Project] The “Theorizing Creative Life” Project</em> (June 21, 2025)</a>, captures a pivotal stage in the development of Creative Life Theory.</p><p><em>Total time: 368 min</em></p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/p/fbf020d0f606">Mapping Strategic Moves #1: Building Creative Life Theory</a><br><em>10 min — Sept 9, 2024</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-love-learn-and-legacy-why-deca1fe0be80">GO Theory: Love, Learn, and Legacy (Why?)</a><br>23 min — Dec 3, 2024</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-philosophy-sociology-and-psychology-what-3f12c4a23dea">GO Theory: Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology (What?)</a><strong><br></strong><em>27 min — Dec 6, 2024</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-the-cultural-genidentity-framework-3ffab3e280f0">GO Theory: The Cultural Genidentity Framework</a><strong><br></strong><em>4 min — Feb 4, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/wonder-and-wander-the-aion-journey-2021-2025-90dcb44c54e8">[Wonder and Wander] The Aion Journey (2021–2025)</a><br><em>46 min — May 2, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/wander-and-wander-the-evolving-knowledge-enterprise-journey-2020-2025-2c8a5c8ceb5c">[Wander and Wander] The “Evolving Knowledge Enterprise” Journey (2020–2025)</a><br><em>43 min — May 24, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/wander-and-wander-the-mapping-network-of-enterprises-journey-2020-2025-b69be20ac679">[Wander and Wander] The “Mapping Network of Enterprises” Journey (2020–2025)</a><br><em>48 min — May 28, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/wonder-and-wander-revealing-the-evolving-knowledge-enterprise-book-v1-0-introduction-298db2e8f839">Wonder and Wander: Revealing The Evolving Knowledge Enterprise (book, v1.0, Introduction)</a><br><em>40 min — June 12, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-chronos-space-aion-space-and-world-of-activity-ef2e61f8f900">GO Theory: Chronos Space, Aion Space, and World of Activity</a><br><em>35 min — June 17, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-genidentity-opportunity-and-world-of-activity-book-v1-0-introduction-6e0b8e312f43">GO Theory: Genidentity, Opportunity, and World of Activity (book, v1.0, Introduction)</a><br><em>18 min — June 18, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/gap-project-the-theorizing-creative-life-project-0da439b3fa10">[GAP Project] The “Theorizing Creative Life” Project</a><br><em>44 min — June 21, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-five-situational-thematic-maps-as-creative-landscape-379605c5b99e">[Frame for Work] Five Situational Thematic Maps as Creative Landscape</a><br><em>13 min — August 9, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-with-ai-do-these-five-diagrams-present-a-meaningful-creative-journey-oliver-ding-0eb32fa7d78a">[GO with AI] Do These Five Diagrams Present a Meaningful Creative Journey? (Oliver Ding)</a><strong><br></strong><em>17 min — Sept 9, 2025</em></li></ul><h3>Part 2: Creative Self and World of Activity</h3><p>In the “Self-Life-Mind” schema, the “Self” is located at the “ontology” level; it is about the philosophical setting of a theory. For Creative Life Theory, it refers to understanding the development of a creative self from the ontological level.</p><p>Instead of asking what the self is, I ask where the self is. By using the <strong>Container (Containee</strong>) pattern of the Ecological Practice Approach, I develop the notion of <strong>Life(Self)</strong>, which leads to the concept of “World of Activity.”</p><p>I introduced the concept of the “World of Activity” to define the large life container of a person. Since the concept takes the individual subject perspective, it provides an ideal answer to the question of where the self is.</p><p>The World of Activity has a twofold structure: its boundary and its content.</p><p>As a large life container, every person’s World of Activity is bounded by what phenomenology terms “givenness” (Gegebenheit) — those aspects of existence that present themselves to consciousness as already there, prior to our choosing or willing. Drawing on this insight and inspired by Chinese philosophical imagery, I identify four fundamental givens: Birth, Death, Heaven (e.g., language, culture), and Earth (e.g., environment, geography).</p><p>Inspired by ecological formism, the World of Activity emphasizes the “Flow-Focus-Center-Circle” schema as four entities of content at the ontological level.</p><p>My recent Kindle book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Homecoming-Thematic-World-Activity-Approach-ebook/dp/B0FQ6TV1FV/ref=sr_1_1"><em>Homecoming: A Thematic Trip and the World of Activity Approach</em></a> applies the “Flow-Focus-Center-Circle” schema to reflect on my own life journey, showcasing the power of the framework for guiding empirical research.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><h4>2.1 Overview</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/tale500/life-self-c194533e0597">The Notion of Life (Self)</a> <br><em>14 min — July 17, 2023</em></li><li><a href="https://www.activityanalysis.net/lifescope-the-world-of/"><em>Lifescope: The World of Activity for Creative Life Curation</em></a><br><em>14 min— Nov 2022</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-chronos-space-aion-space-and-world-of-activity-ef2e61f8f900"><em>Chronos Space, Aion Space, and World of Activity</em></a><br>35 min — June 17, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/tale500/thematic-space-theory-the-landscape-of-world-of-activity-075bf8cd8461">The Landscape of “World of Activity”</a><br><em>20 min — September 13, 2025</em></li></ul><h4>2.2 The “Flow-Focus-Center-Circle” Schema</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/the-world-of-activity-model-v1-0-2025-7867053d2390"><em>The World of Activity Model (v1.0, 2025): Flow, Focus, Center, and Circle</em></a><br><em>2 min — June 13, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/an-introduction-to-homecoming-and-the-world-of-activity-approach-b78f21385107">An Introduction to Homecoming and the World of Activity Approach</a><br><em>21 min — August 26, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/see-the-move-four-looks-on-the-world-of-activity-approach-91f5938f2dd8"><em>See the Move: Four Looks at the World of Activity Approach</em></a><br><em>16 min — August 6, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/ecological-formism-creative-self-and-world-of-activity-3f556de70555">Ecological Formism: Creative Self and World of Activity</a><br><em>21 min — September 11, 2025</em></li></ul><h3>Part 3: Creative Self and Curativity</h3><p>Creative Themes and Creative Identity are two essential things in the development of the Creative Self. In Creative Life Theory (v2.0), these issues are addressed through Curativity Theory, especially the practice of Meta-curation.</p><p>The “Aion-Chronos-Kairos” Schema defines three types of spaces for two types of meta-curation: time curation and space curation. They are related to Exploratory Decision-making and Identity Development within the World of Activity.</p><p>In <a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/wonder-and-wander-the-aion-journey-2021-2025-90dcb44c54e8"><em>[Wonder and Wander] The Aion Journey (2021–2025)</em></a>, I defined <strong>Time Curation</strong> as a meta-curation process that supports <em>Enterprise Curation</em>. Based on the current case study, we can now also define <strong>Space Curation</strong> as a complementary meta-curation process — one that focuses primarily on the identity development of a knowledge enterprise.</p><p>In this way, the <em>Journey of Project Engagement</em> model, the <em>Genidentity of Knowledge System</em> model, and the <em>Creative Identity Engagement</em> framework come together to form a composite approach — an emergent method for understanding the <strong>art of Space Curation</strong>.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-the-life-coordinate-framework-v2-2023-bc37d7b178b0"><em>The Life Coordinate Framework (v2, 2023)</em></a><em><br>37 min — May 21, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://www.activityanalysis.net/world-of-activity-5-the-creative-thematic-curation-framework/"><em>The Creative Thematic Curation Framework</em></a><em><br>33 min — March 25, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/the-creative-identity-engagement-framework-v1-adb9130b8180"><em>The Creative Identity Engagement Framework</em></a><br>2 min — Oct 17, 2024</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-the-aion-chronos-kairos-schema-14ea7ca5ea45"><em>The “Aion-Chronos-Kairos” Schema</em></a><em><br>24 min — May 14, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://www.activityanalysis.net/world-of-activity-4-the-thematic-identity-curation-framework/"><em>The Thematic Identity Curation Framework</em></a><em><br>16 min — March 8, 2025</em></li></ul><h3>Part 4: Creative Center and Social Moves</h3><p>This part examines the development of the creative center and its interaction with social structures and activities.</p><p>Since Creative Life Theory (v2.0) focuses on knowledge engagement and building a knowledge enterprise, the dual-center structure of developing a creative enterprise appears as a form of the “Create — Curate” schema, also known as knowledge creation and knowledge curation.</p><p>However, v3.0 of Creative Life Theory aims to expand from knowledge engagement to a general theory of thematic enterprise, covering cultural, business, and other forms of creative enterprise.</p><p>The recent development of the World of Activity toolkit expands the “Create — Curate” schema to the “Create — Curate — Weave” schema.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><h4>4.1 Overview</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/container-thinking-the-wonder-and-wander-framework-c9ac7418e65d"><em>Container Thinking: The Wonder and Wander Framework</em></a><br><em>11 min — June 23, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-the-mental-social-material-schema-9720edd2f131">The “Mental — Social — Material” Schema</a><br><em>16 min — March 26, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-the-create-curate-weave-schema-0f4c6db246c8">[Frame for Work] The “Create-Curate-Weave” Schema</a><br><em>17 min — Sept 17, 2025</em></li></ul><h4>4.2 Center Development</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/center-circle-and-genidentity-36acb1e5e828">Center, Circle, and Genidentity (book, v1, 2024)</a><br><em>27 min — June 1, 2024</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/center-development-footbook-v1-2025-a72e35466daa">Center Development (Footbook, v1, 2025)</a><br><em>15 min — May 16, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/scalable-focus-footbook-v1-2025-793a8dff13c9">Scalable Focus (Footbook, v1, 2025)</a><br><em>18 min</em> — <em>April 25, 2025</em></li></ul><h3>Part 5: Creative Center and Thematic Enterprise</h3><p>A creative center can grow and expand into a thematic enterprise.</p><p>In June 2025, I concluded the Wonder and Wander project and created the <em>“Theory as Enterprise”</em> framework.</p><p>Over the following three months, this framework evolved into a general Thematic Enterprise approach, encompassing several new models on Cultural Enterprises and Cultural Frameworks.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li>Curativity Theory in the Field: A Case Study of “Theory as Enterprise” (<a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/curativity-as-an-ontological-invention-3533eb3967e3">1</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/curativity-as-an-ontological-invention-3533eb3967e3">2</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/curativity-a-creative-enterprise-828623c1270b">3</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/curativity-for-personal-practice-bb2e5ddb727a">4</a>) — <em>60 min, March 30, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-theory-as-enterprise-framework-v1-2025-fb1f5fa037d2">The “Theory as Enterprise” Framework (v1, 2025)</a><br><em>6 min — June 9, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-theory-the-cultural-genidentity-framework-3ffab3e280f0">The Cultural Genidentity Framework</a><br><em>4 min — Feb 4, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-once-upon-a-freesoul-3475a133bb57">Freesouls in Foochow: Once Upon A Freesoul</a><br><em>10 min — August 7, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-frame-for-work-canavs-v1-2025-821145254b71">Cultural Frameworks: The Frame for Work Canvas (v1, 2025)</a><br><em>9 min — Sept 8, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/tiny-culture-the-culture-as-thematic-enterprise-framework-d3c97513d3dc">Tiny Culture: The “Culture as Thematic Enterprise” Framework</a><br><em>4 min —</em> Sept 11, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/curation-commons-9-11-curator-and-curation-as-memorial-887f333fcce3"><em>Curation Commons: 9/11 Curator and Curation as Memorial</em></a><br><em>5 min —</em> Sept 11, 2025</li></ul><h3>Part 6: Creative Center and Social Landscape</h3><p>In June 2025, I discovered a deep structure of social practice while reflecting on my early engagement with Web 2.0 in the early 2000s.</p><p>Through this case study, I identified a deep structure underlying the dynamic development of Worlds of Activity. This higher-order structure, which I call <strong>Significant Social Forms (SSF)</strong>, represents social forms that organize and contain diverse types of behavior. One such social form relates to sociotech development, which I call the <strong>Sociotech Landscape</strong>.</p><p>The “Significant Social Forms” framework identifies the following schema and uses them to name several deep structures of social life:</p><ul><li>SSF in general: [Beginning — End — Language — Environment]</li><li>SSF of interpersonal interaction: [Self — Other — Present — Future]</li><li>SSF of Sociotech: [Tech — Tool — Culture — Project]</li><li>SSF of Cultural Innovation: [Ideation — Validation — Application — Reflection]</li><li>SSF of Creative Life: [Whole — Pieces — Solid — Fluid]</li></ul><p>The “Beginning — End — Language — Environment” schema is a Derived Form of the Basic Form of the World of Activity: the “Heaven — Earth — Birth — Death” schema.</p><p>The “Self — Other — Present — Future” schema was discovered in 2021. Later, it led to the Anticipatory Activity System framework and a book draft titled <em>Advanced Life Strategy</em>.</p><p>The “Whole — Pieces — Solid — Fluid” schema was discovered in February 2023, when I created <a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/the-hermeneutics-of-creative-life-20c2511c6c64">the “Hermeneutics of Creative Life” framework</a>.</p><p>The recent development of SSF has focused on two fields: Sociotech and Cultural Innovation. Later, in September, I made the Sociotech Landscape Canvas (D3F1) to further explore it.</p><p>I also created <a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-frame-for-work-canavs-v1-2025-821145254b71">the Frame for Work Canvas (v1, 2025)</a>, guided by the “Ideation — Validation — Application — Reflection” schema.</p><p>In September, it was named the <em>Social Landscape</em> framework.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/universal-reference-6b68eb2f1013"><em>A Universal Reference for Knowledge Engagement</em></a><br>13 min — Nov 9, 2022</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-social-landscape-framework-v2-2025-7853f06e889c"><em>The Social Landscape Framework (v2, 2025)</em></a><br><em>14 min — Sept 15, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/p/7df9dd379c54"><em>The iART Framework</em></a> <br>12 min — August 21, 2021</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-frame-for-work-canavs-v1-2025-821145254b71"><em>The Frame for Work Canvas (v1, 2025)</em></a><br><em>9 min — Sept 8, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-sociotech-landscape-canvas-v1-2025-236ee7559d3d"><em>The Sociotech Landscape Canvas (v1, 2025)</em></a><br>10 min — Sept 11, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/concept-fit-5fe78a458cb8"><em>Platform Innovation as Concept-fit</em></a><br>49 min — March 25, 2021</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/the-hermeneutics-of-creative-life-20c2511c6c64"><em>The Hermeneutics of Creative Life</em></a><em><br></em>6 min — August 22, 2023</li></ul><h3>Part 7: Creative Mind and Mental Moves</h3><p>This part showcases my personal experiences of Mental Moves in action, illustrating how the creative mind navigates, organizes, and develops ideas through situational thinking.</p><p>These articles and diagrams can be seen as practical applications of Thematic Space Theory, particularly in applying knowledge frameworks and mental modeling in real creative work.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/tale500/thematic-space-theory-one-map-and-four-paths-391ba22bd5aa">Thematic Space Theory: One Map and Four Paths</a><br>17 min — Feb 23, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-a-situational-thematic-map-for-knowledge-engagement-428f57089a3f">[Frame for Work] A Situational Thematic Map for Knowledge Engagement</a><br>9 min — March 7, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-a-multi-layered-thematic-map-and-project-engagement-064c7ab67c14">A Multi-layered Thematic Map and Project Engagement</a><em><br>13 min — March 20, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/frame-for-work-five-situational-thematic-maps-as-creative-landscape-379605c5b99e">[Frame for Work] Five Situational Thematic Maps as Creative Landscape</a><br><em>13 min — August 9, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/go-with-ai-a-few-questions-about-mapping-creative-landscape-ee3190cceab5">[GO with AI] A few questions about “Mapping Creative Landscape”</a><br><em>24 min — August 19, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/creative-landscape-framework-vs-situational-model-ed42fdd70d94">[Creative Landscape] Framework vs. Situational Model</a><br><em>9 min — August 31, 2025</em></li></ul><h3>Part 8: Creative Mind and Strategic Agency</h3><p>In 2022, Creative Life Theory (v1.0) adopted the Anticipatory Activity System (AAS) framework to define eight movements, each requiring corresponding cognitive functions of the mind. Later, I expanded these to nine themes and connected them with the Curativity of Mind model.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*_zwr7UKTXvGjtWAD.jpeg" /></figure><p>The diagram above assigns nine themes to four groups, corresponding to the four entities of the Curativity of Mind.</p><h4>Action:</h4><ul><li>Discovering</li><li>Producing</li><li>Unfolding</li></ul><h4>Perception:</h4><ul><li>Perceiving</li><li>Performing</li></ul><h4>Conception:</h4><ul><li>Modeling</li><li>Storytelling</li></ul><h4>Curation:</h4><ul><li>Anticipating</li><li>Curating</li></ul><p>The recent development of this section frames them as nine aspects of Strategic Agency. I also relate it to the notion of “heart-mind,” a concept of Chinese philosophy.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/the-journey-of-strategic-life-theory-v1-2025-and-its-landscape-6ca49788efa0"><em>The Journey of Strategic Life Theory (V1, 2025) and its Landscape</em></a><br>11 min — Feb 2, 2025</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverding_creative-life-the-unfolding-of-a-new-activity-7373015819183652864-F-WH?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAABEwJ4BBuz9_Xz5iUm5SsR3QTNFNBKlqFI"><em>[Creative Life] The “Unfolding” of a new journey</em></a><br>2 min — September 14, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/p/c983c0740d8a"><em>Strategic Moves: Mapping Knowledge Engagement and Structural Choice (book, v1, 2024)</em></a><em><br>14 min — September 30, 2024</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/strategic-life-narrative-book-v1-2025-a5bdffea3c89"><em>Strategic Life Narrative: Telling the Story of Intellectual Adventures (book, v1, 2025)</em></a><br>6 min — Jan 29, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/p/b3626a054ac3"><em>Knowledge Strategy: The Ecological Strategic Cognition Framework (v2.2) for Building Knowledge Enterprises (book, v1, 2025)</em></a><em><br>8 min — Jan 31, 2025</em></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/castle-and-forest-the-landscape-of-concept-related-knowledge-engagement-book-v1-2025-f32573f909b4"><em>Castle and Forest: The Landscape of Concept-related Knowledge Engagement (book, v2.0, 2025)</em></a><br>23 min — Feb 27, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/pieces-whole-and-curativity-book-v1-0-2025-35328813b2d6"><em>Pieces, Whole, and Curativity (book, v2.1, 2025)</em></a><br>13 min — March 31, 2025</li></ul><h3>Part 9: Creative Engagement with Givenness</h3><p>In the Introduction of <em>Homecoming, </em>I highlight the idea of “Creative Engagement with Givenness” at the end.</p><p>Drawing on Maruyama’s ideas on deviation-amplifying systems, creativity researcher Howard Gruber once observed, “Creative people commit themselves to creative tasks. In other words, they hope to make some change in the sum of human knowledge and experience… when deviations occur, they are welcomed and the goal is to explore and elaborate them: They are made a part of the creative person’s hoped-for something new under the sun. Because deviations always occur, the choice is always there to be made.”</p><p>From my reflection on early adolescence, we can expand Gruber’s ideas further. People who lead creative lives differ from others in a fundamental way: in their creative engagement with givenness.</p><p>My adolescent experience in Fuzhou demonstrates how creative individuals can simultaneously engage with multiple dimensions of givenness. In doing so, they transform apparent constraints into generative resources.</p><p>Interestingly, my recent theoretical exploration also resonates with these two types of creative engagement. My research on the Concept–Diagram connection addresses the givenness of language, while the Ecological Practice Approach — also known as Container Thinking — which focuses on identifying and acting upon potential opportunities offered by environments, corresponds to the second type.</p><h4>Featured Articles</h4><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/the-givenness-of-the-world-of-activity-2a2321202d8e"><em>The Givenness of the World of Activity</em></a><br>6 min — September 7, 2025</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/alien-land-geographical-expansion-025b041a2eaa"><em>Alien Land: Geographical Expansion</em></a><br>9 min — September 7, 2025</li></ul><h3>Related Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Homecoming-Thematic-World-Activity-Approach-ebook/dp/B0FQ6TV1FV/ref=sr_1_1">Homecoming: A Thematic Trip and the World of Activity Approach</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/tale500/thematic-space-theory-the-landscape-of-world-of-activity-075bf8cd8461">Thematic Space Theory: The Landscape of “World of Activity”</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/frame-for-work/the-self-life-mind-schema-and-how-to-achieve-a-creative-life-96479298f907">The “Self-Life-Mind” Schema and How to Achieve a Creative Life</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/call4/container-thinking-book-v1-0-2025-d0c0cfe876ea">Container Thinking (book, v1.0, 2025)</a></li></ul><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=cfd0ae16351e" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/call4/being-by-doing-world-of-activity-and-creative-life-theory-v3-0-cfd0ae16351e">Being by Doing: World of Activity and Creative Life Theory (v3.0)</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/call4">CALL4</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/the-givenness-of-the-world-of-activity-2a2321202d8e?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1980/0*y3EJxMG9hzkTWQa0.jpg" width="1980"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">A short note</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/the-givenness-of-the-world-of-activity-2a2321202d8e?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:36:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-with-ai-do-these-five-diagrams-present-a-meaningful-creative-journey-oliver-ding-0eb32fa7d78a?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/0*RM_xFJSPZYT79ked.jpeg" width="600"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">A deep conversation about the long-term development of creative thoughts</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-with-ai-do-these-five-diagrams-present-a-meaningful-creative-journey-oliver-ding-0eb32fa7d78a?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:44:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-with-ai-do-these-five-diagrams-present-a-meaningful-creative-journey-chatgpt-a4b135312fb2?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/630/0*Gnj7J2fbd7uxesqA.jpeg" width="630"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">A deep conversation about the long-term development of creative thoughts</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/go-with-ai-do-these-five-diagrams-present-a-meaningful-creative-journey-chatgpt-a4b135312fb2?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:16:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-iv-9ae5a027467d?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*i3W_GHIfqn7HvCGQ.jpeg" width="1600"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Reflecting on the developmental stages of a free soul from a fresh perspective</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-iv-9ae5a027467d?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:08:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-iii-75f063a66165?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*UBHvKdGmkLq4lLRN.jpeg" width="1600"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Reflecting on the developmental stages of a free soul from a fresh perspective</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-iii-75f063a66165?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 02:31:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-ii-97d6b88a2e3f?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*zD5QWYb_544udU_h.jpeg" width="1600"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Reflecting on the developmental stages of a free soul from a fresh perspective</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/call4/freesouls-in-foochow-an-autobiography-and-five-forms-of-the-world-of-activity-part-ii-97d6b88a2e3f?source=rss----b98e66361cb9---4">Continue reading on CALL4 »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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