Life Discovery: “Project Engagement” and “Themes of Practice”

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
4 min readJul 5, 2022

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Life, History, and Multiverse

The above diagram is a significant insight about the Project-centered approach. I will consider applying it for the next version of the Life Discovery Program since it offers a zoom-out view for the Life-as-Project approach.

History as a chain of Events

On June 29, 2022, I adopted the perspective of sociology to reflect on the notion of “Activity as Project Engagement”. I realized that while we can understand Life as a chain of Projects, we can understand History as a chain of Events.

Thus, we connect “Event — Project”, “Life — History”, and “Life Themes — Cultural Themes” together.

This notion echoes my idea about “Event — Project” in Life as Activity (v0.3).

The Life-as-Project approach uses “events” and “projects” to present social context and individual biography. The difference between “events” and “projects”…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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