Activity System Plus

A notion about Activity System Model

The Lifesystem framework is inspired by Activity Theory, especially the Activity System Model. Since the model doesn’t have the concept of Resource, I have to apply some data to Mediation or Object which are two “official” concepts of the model. I even created a new diagram called Activity System Plus which adds “Resource” to the original model for private discussions with my friends.

The Activity System model doesn’t have the concept of “Resource” and the above diagram is just for testing. This is one of the reasons that I want to develop the Lifesystem framework.

The concept of “Resource” is also inspired by the following diagram which is a model of TRIZ. I found the diagram from Kalevi Rantanen and Ellen Domb’s 2007 book Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals.

The book uses one chapter titled Mapping Invisible Resources to discuss the topic of Resources.

For the Lifesystem framework, I’d like to point out that the most important value of the Ecological Practice approach is its perspective indicates the ecological meaning of objects and environments. It is very useful for rethinking Resources and Opportunities.

In 2019, I developed a framework called Life Curation which contains a module called the “Resources — Results” Analysis. The framework suggests that a person could build his or her creative containers to curate pieces of resources into meaningful results.