Ecological Practice Design: The Affordances of Mirror and Lifeway

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
9 min readAug 10, 2022

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A tiny action for learning Lifesystem-based Innovation

On May 17, 2022, I edited a book (draft) titled Ecological Practice Design: The Lifesystem Approach to Everyday Life Innovation.

I started developing the Ecological Practice Approach in 2019 and the Lifesystem framework was born in Oct 2020. In the past four years, I wrote several books (in drafts) about the approach:

Some readers may know that Creative Design is one of my career themes. My early career was designing newspaper ads and corporate identity. Later, I moved to digital interaction design. Now, I am working on activity analysis and service design.

Though the Ecological Practice Approach and the Lifesystem framework were not developed for discussing Design, they could apply to the field of Design, especially everyday life innovation.

This article aims to encourage you to take a tiny action for learning Lifesystem-based Innovation.

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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