Social Moves: Weaving the Mind and Clarifying the Order

Oliver Ding
Curativity Center
Published in
20 min readDec 8, 2023

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A Case Study of Strategic Change

On Dec 5, 2023, I published an article titled Social Moves: An Integrated Ecological Approach to Social Cognition. This is a major milestone of the Social Moves project.

The article reviewed the concept of “Ecological Formism” and used it to develop a new knowledge framework. This decision caused a series of changes in my knowledge projects.

The above diagram represents these changes.

In this article, I will use it as an example to discuss the issue of Strategic Changes.

The above diagram has two parts:

  • Left: Weaving the Mind (August 24, 2023)
  • Right: Clarifying the Order (Dec 5, 2023)

This is a simple structure: Before | After

I will use this structure to organize this article.

Contents

Part 1: Before — Weaving the Mind

1.1 Thematic Exploration for Early Discovery
1.2 August 24, 2023: A Thematic Scraboard
1.3 The Journey from August to November
1.4 Revisiting Two Thematic Spaces

Part 2: After — Clarifying…

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Oliver Ding
Curativity Center

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