The “Hands-on Famagusta” project’s ad-hoc technology for urban controversies is a web-platform consisting of three pools of designerly knowledge about controversial questions in regards to the role of the city’s commons during post conflict urban reconstruction, (Actors and Agendas, Other Cities, Urban Design Projects). The pool of “Actors and Agendas” is formulated during off-line activities such as roundtable workshops and consultation meetings between the “Hands-on Famagusta” project team and Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Famagustians.