Activity Analysis Center: Modeling Social Practices

A new program for developing your cognitive skills

In August 2022, I will work on a new program called Modeling Social Practices that aims to encourage you to run a Developmental Project for creating new knowledge about social practices. See the diagram above.

Connecting THEORY and PRACTICE

The “Modeling Social Practices” program is developed with a mission of connecting THEORY and PRACTICE. The above diagram is based on a meta-diagram called WXMY. See it below.

The WXMY meta-diagram uses Container Z to connect Container X and Container Y. Container Z is also named Echozone because I name the approach the ECHO Way for knowledge curation and boundary innovation.

The concept of Container is the core of the Ecological Practice approach. By adjusting the quality and quantity of the Container, we can create advanced frameworks for discussing complex phenomena. The quality of the Container can be potential and actual, and the quantity of the Container can be one or two. If we develop a new framework with one potential container and two actual containers, the outcome is the…