Creative Life Curation: Discover Thematic Spaces of Creative Life
A new method of using the Knowledge Discovery Canvas
Two weeks ago, I worked on the Activity Analysis & Intervention (AAI) program and ran an AAI project to help a knowledge creator reflect on his journey of knowledge engagement and discover potential creative themes for the future. I used the Knowledge Discovery Canvas to discover several thematic spaces and placed his creative thematic network around the canvas. I didn’t use the canvas in its official way but used its white space for exploring potential thematic spaces.
To keep the client’s privacy, I applied the diagram to my own Creative Life.
On Oct 5, 2023, I discovered 5 thematic spaces from my Creative Life. See the diagrams below. You can find more details in CALL: The Development of Creative Life Theory (2020–2023, Part 7).
By using the Knowledge Discovery Canvas, I discovered more thematic spaces from my Creative Life. See the diagram below.
Let’s start with the following basic unit of a thematic space. I designed the basic unit for the AAI project.
The above basic unit represents a thematic space in a three-layer structure:
- Creative Life Story
- Creative Theme
- Knowledge Model
Creative Life Story refers to an interesting real-life story from a person’s creative life.
Creative Theme refers to a theme behind a creative life story. Each story is associated with a theme that defines a thematic space.
Knowledge Model refers to a knowledge framework for understanding the thematic space.
This three-layer structure was designed for the Activity Analysis & Intervention (AAI) program.
I discovered 8 thematic spaces from my recent creative life and placed them around the Knowledge Discovery Canvas.
Enter:
- Situational Note-taking
- Early Discovery
- The Thematic Exploration Framework
Exit:
- Life Reflection
- Late Bloom
- The Creative Life Curation Framework
THEORY:
- Theoretical Integration
- Spirit of Unification
- The Knowledge Curation Framework
PRACTICE:
- Value Circle
- Knowledge Center
- The Project Engagement Framework
END:
- Frame for Work
- Applied Psychological Science
- The Meaning Matrix Framework
MEANS:
- Diagram Blending
- Thematic Spaces
- The Ecological Creative Cognition Framework
Individual:
- Mental Moves
- Self-awareness
- The Ecological Creative Cognition Framework
Collective:
- Social Moves
- Structured Social Support
- The Platform-for-Development Framework
A knowledge model can be assigned to more than one thematic space. For example, the Ecological Creative Cognition Framework was assigned to “Thematic Spaces” and “Self-awareness”.
I also use the AAI program and the Life Discovery Canvas to frame these 8 thematic spaces.
- The AAI program defines two types of analysis: First-order Analysis and Second-order Analysis.
- The Life Discovery Canvas defines four areas of life discovery: THINK, LEARN, SAY, and DO.
The primary themes of my Creative Life are Creative Work and Meta-knowledge about life and work.
First-order Activity Analysis (DO and SAY) is about Creative Work. I placed four thematic spaces into this category because they are all about Creative Work (DO and SAY).
- Value Circle
- Theoretical Integration
- Frame for Work
- Life Reflection
Second-order Activity Analysis (THINK and LEARN) is about Meta-knowledge about life and work. I placed the other four thematic spaces into this category.
- Mental Moves
- Social Moves
- Diagram Blending
- Situational Note-taking
This is the first round of exploring potential thematic spaces with the Knowledge Discovery Canvas.