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Anneessens  is an interstitial neighbourhood in the centre of Brussels, inhabited by a heterogeneous mix of social groups. Recurrently treated as a backside, Anneessens developed a rather fragmented and disadvantaged social tissue. Simultaneously, the indeterminate and decaying urban tissue affects the dynamics of the collective spaces. Anneessens is both a transit neighbourhood and a neighbourhood in transition. Increasingly, urban renovation policies following paradigms of social "mixité" are implemented by city and region of Brussels. In the first part, a cartographic exploration aims to uncover and unravel the current complexity of Anneessens. The resulting "atlas of the commons" seeks to decipher material and social infrastructures as a mechanism of empowerment for those facing social vulnerability, with synergies of reciprocity and solidarity. In the second part, iterative cartographies seek to build explorative strategies for in-determinate spaces, probing more inclusive future scenarios. Mediation, reciprocity, commons and urban in- and over-determinate spaces are tackled in order to examine Anneessens as a place of opportunities for the most disadvantaged inhabitants.