Ecological Formism (Light Possible Book)

How do you organize a growing body of ideas and creations?

Since 2023, Oliver Ding has used the Ecological Formism framework to build a hierarchical structure to curate his expanding creative landscape—including forty book drafts, thirty-eight meta-frameworks, and a wide range of diagrams, canvases, and knowledge maps.

This possible book reviews the development and the landscape of the framework. At its core is the "Variant—Quasi-invariant—Invariant—Invariant Set" schema: a hybrid hierarchical structure combining both diachronic (time-based) and synchronic (space-based) perspectives for analyzing concepts and social phenomena.

The framework has evolved from five to twelve units of analysis, including:

• Concept
• Framework
• Diagram
• Thematic Space
• Narrative
• Context (Mind)
• Life (Self)
• Relation
• Supportance
• Social Landscape
• Activity
• Affordance

Together, these units of analysis and their associated content form a mature ecological approach to social cognition.

About the Light Edition

This Light Edition is designed as an accessible entry point. Unlike the Classic edition (a fully edited single PDF), the Light edition includes:

• An introduction to the possible book
• 14 featured articles
• A complete Table of Contents

📊 At a glance

• Full possible book: 8 parts · 86 articles · 1,322 min read · ~350,330 words (~701 single-spaced pages)
• Light edition: 15 files · 277 min read · ~73,405 words (~147 single-spaced pages)

What you’ll find inside

#0 - Ecological Formism (book, v1, 2025) - Introduction and TOC - 18 mi

#01 - Ecological Formism: Theoretical Foundations - 36 min

#02 - Building the Ecological Formism Framework (v2.0) - 10 min

#03 - An Integrated Ecological Approach to Social Cognition - 17 min

#04 - The Hermeneutics of Knowledge Frameworks and Ecological Formism - 23 min

#05 - Creative Self and World of Activity - 21 min

#06 - The Landscape of “World of Activity” - 20 min

#07 - The Social Landscape Framework (v2, 2025) — 14 min

#08 - The Weave-the-Mind Framework – 31 min

#09 - Supportance and Developmental Platform — 21 min

#10 - Kinds of Relation — 21 min

#11 - Narrative (Curation): The Weave-the-Narrative Framework - 16 min

#12 - The “Weave” Basic Form - 11 min

#13 - The Art of Ecological Metaphor - 4 min

#14 - The Ap-Re-Co Framework (v1, 2025) - 14 min