X____Y: The Basic Form of “Creative Dialogue” (4)

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
7 min readMar 30, 2024

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More examples of the Basic Form of “Creative Dialogue”

This post is part of the Creative Dialogue project which aims to

The article is part of the Creative Dialogue project which aims to introduce “Creative Dialogue” as a new Unit of Analysis of Creative Life Theory by curating relevant frameworks and articles.

From 2022 to 2023, I worked on developing the Creative Life Curation project and the Knowledge Engagement project. The outcome is a new theoretical approach to knowledge creators’ life course: Creative Life Theory.

In the book (draft) titled Creative Life Curation, I developed Creative Life Theory (v1.0) which considers the following five units of analysis.

1. Creative Actions
2. Creative Projects
3. Creative Journey
4. Creative Landscape
5. Creative Lifescope

The framework also highlights the following three types of “Curativity”:

  • Curativity 1: Turning pieces of Projects into a Journey as a meaningful whole
  • Curativity 2: Turning pieces of Projects into a Landscape as a meaningful whole
  • Curativity 3: Turning pieces of Actions and Projects into a…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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