The Knowledge Curation Toolkit #1: Theme U for Single-theory Curation

Oliver Ding
Curativity Center
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23 min readJun 19, 2022

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The first tool of the Knowledge Curation Project

The above HERO U diagram is part of the HERO U framework which is a tool I made for the Knowledge Curation project.

From Sept 2018 to March 2019, I wrote a book titled Curativity: The Ecological Approach to Curatorial Practice. The book presents the Curativity Theory with a theoretical foundation Ecological Practice approach. In 2020, I decided to apply Curativity Theory to Knowledge Building and I started working on the Knowledge Curation project which led to several books later.

The mission behind the Knowledge Curation project is Connecting Theory and Practice.

In the past three years, I developed a series of frameworks, models, diagrams, canvases, and methods for the Knowledge Curation Project.

  • The HERO U Framework
  • The HERO U Canvas
  • The Model of Knowledge Curation
  • The Knowledge Curation Canvas
  • The Thematic Space Canvas
  • The Slow Cognition Method
  • A Set of Meta-diagrams

The HERO U diagram is a part of the HERO U framework. It is a simple version of the above “When Theory Meets Practice” diagram. The…

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Oliver Ding
Curativity Center

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