Artistic practices provide a fertile ground for transdisciplinary engagement between people from different backgrounds. They open up thinking through affective processes that, contrary to classical disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, enable a transcending of collective and individual stances. The focus here is not on the possible artworks, but on the appropriation and use of artistic practices and the resulting basis for discussion of affective ways of thinking. This allows for the individual and collective situatedness to be revealed and put up for negotiation without judgement, and opens up not exclusively thinking about overlaps, but thinking about possibilities. In this, new and implicitly different ways can be found and explored. A stance to face social and ecological crises collectively and individually in a different, more reflective and inclusive way.