A quick, perhaps as faulted, response –

The organization we are working with provides resources, coordination and guidance for non-profits working in the region. Beyond shaping their own work culture transformation, their new offices are also intended to be a place where the other organizations they work with can reside while collaboratively shaping a project or program. It is also a workspace that may have a high proportion of non-employee volunteers residing there for short or extended assignments.

In the sense, then, of this more open and accessible kind of workplace, I was using the term “wayshowing” as a means of aligning with the organization’s mission as well as to shape a graphics and technology project. Yet aspirational and certainly not fully formed I hope our work may –

⁃ Convey a sense of hospitality – provide visual cues and other devices to pull people into the space and help them feel a sense of ownership, encouraging them to shape the space to their own needs
⁃ Support the development of a more open and collaborative culture – by providing the tools and models for the visual display of information, encourage open display of ongoing work so that others there can see it, learn from it, contribute to it, find their place in it
⁃ Support more effective work – by making the work more visible and engaging more people in it, to use and show best practices in action
⁃ Contribute to engagement – if the space can become more expressive and tell its own story, then the volunteers who work here may feel more committed, and the people who visit here may understand better how the resources they contribute will impact their communities, and those they speak to may also visualize a way to become part of the organizational mission

“Wayshowing” here, then, is pre-techological. I use it, I guess, in interpretation of Per Mollerup’s sense – “Wayshowing relates to wayfinding as writing relates to reading and as speaking relates to hearing. The purpose of wayshowing is to facilitate wayfinding. Wayshowing is the means. Wayfinding is the end.”

Beyond the resources of this project however, I yearn for and can see the potential and power in what I might interpret your sense to be in your transformational “elements of networked urbanism.” I’d hope for most if not all of those elements to in some way characterize this space. I’d also be pleased to see that what occurs in this space acts as an influence on behaviors, programs and cultures throughout the region – a networked urbanism both supported by AR as well as operating beyond it.