Activity U (XI): Process, Position, and Zone of Project

In order to understand the internal structure and dynamics of Project, I propose the concept of Zone of Project which is inspired by Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Roger Barker’s Behavior Settings theory.

Bottleman in Retreat (Oliver Ding, 2017)

The previous article presents a new concept of Projectivity. In the end of the article, I propose the concept of Zone of Project. As an important step of expanding the approach of Project-oriented Activity Theory, the concept of “Zone of Project” is an outcome of a conceptual curation which is inspired by the Ecological ZONE framework and Project-oriented Activity Theory. The theoretical resources of these two frameworks are ecological approach and cultural-historical approach. Thus, it is a challenge to achieve this goal.

I have discussed the possible connection between Ecological Psychology and Cultural-historical Theory of psychology in the last past of Activity U (X): Projecting, Projectivity, and Cultural Projection. This article focuses on the thread of “Vygotsky-Cole-Barker”. The following diagram represents my strategy for this complex conceptual curation.

The Conceptual Curation behind the concept of Zone of Project (Oliver Ding, 2021)