As a platform for public scholarship, x-commons explores the relationship between power and knowledge, and the regimes of legibility as it relates to the production of a public realm. The primary line of inquiry is about the heuristics of commons. Regardless of the object/scale/scope, x-commons is not about the question "what" but "how," i.e., how the commons work and how the commons can be explicated. In this regard, x-commons is a collector of commons' heuristics.