The paper revisits past and recent ways of understanding the commons, paying attention to their affective qualities and highlighting their potential to constitute active points of relation. It examines commons as infrastructures, as systems and even more as ecologies of resources, people and relations linked to the sociopolitical conditions of their time. It discusses how acting and being in common can assist in the recuperation of society’s social bonds, and it specifically explores how initiatives and practices driven through art can exemplify this. Paying attention not to individual artworks but rather to ongoing collaborative projects or spaces, the paper examines practices of commoning which at the same time constitute acts of world(s)-building Studying artistic initiatives as spaces of multiple affective encounters, it highlights how different temporalities, cultures, and forms of knowledge meet, and offer the ground for transition and transformation, Finally and in relation to these practices, the paper discusses how new aesthetics and values are being formed, assisting relations to be built and cherished.