Life as Activity (version 0.3)

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
37 min readNov 29, 2020

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Second-order Observation(by Oliver Ding)

The Life-as-Activity approach is a by-product of Activity U. The Activity U project is a case study for “HERO U” which is a framework for closing the gap between theory and practice. HERO U is a new framework for knowledge heroes who want to make unique epistemic impacts. I have introduced the framework and its diagram in HERO U — A New Framework for Knowledge Heroes.

In the first article of the Activity U project Activity U: The Landscape of Activity Theory (Part I), I used the HERO U framework to represent various development of Activity Theory.

Diagram U presents six types of “Objective of Knowing”:

  • mTheory: Meta-theory
  • sTheory: Specific Theory
  • aModel: Abstract Model
  • cModel: Concrete Model
  • dPractice: Domain Practice
  • gPractice: General Practice

I didn’t find some example for “gPractice: General Practice”. Thus, I suggested a term for it: Life as Activity. I considered this suggestion as version 0.1 of the Life-as-Activity approach.

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.