This year’s ASP Winter School winter school took the title “The Intangible Matter of Places: Impact and Innovation Commons”. The school was inspired by Richard Nelsons’ icastic sentence “If we can land a man on the moon, why can’t we solve the problems of the ghetto?”, which is often used to compare our ability to manage and solve very complex technological challenges with our disheartening impotence when dealing with social challenges, such as inclusion and inequalities, due to their intrinsic nature of wicked problems.