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x-commons is an inquiry toward identifying and observing the unknown commons (material and immaterial), with the primary objective of increasing our theoretical understanding of the spatial dimension of commons. 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.

The current theme is about the underlying infrastructure of things, protocols, concepts, and presuppositions that inform the project of design and planetary governance at the time of surveillant environmental mandate.

x-commons, as a network, forum, collection, and a publication, strives to become an international collaborative of spatial thinkers, aimed at advancing the research/knowledge around the questions of commons plus aesthetics.

SUBMIT TO X-COMMONS

If you'd like to share your work through this platform, whether it’s an interdisciplinary scholarship, essay, criticism, narrative journalism, poetry or photography, consider submitting it for publication. To submit contact us with a short 200-word description of your work.



PEOPLE

Based on the volume of the ongoing project x-commons will invite and work with guest critics, curators, editors, and authors. All collaborations are project-based.

Curator/director of x-commons is:

Vahan M. Misakyan
Cass Gilbert Assistant Professor, UMN School of Architecture. Previously, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, GSAPP.

Mob: (+1) 347-779-1779

www.vahanmisakyan.com