In this workshop, Angelo Vermeulen presented a selection of art and science projects that he co-created with highly diverse teams. He zoomed in on challenges and failures, and shared lessons learned. Participants of this workshop were asked to contribute their own experiences of dealing with obstacles in transdisciplinary research, and how they coped with it. The goal of the workshop was to map the different examples of experienced miscommunication, friction and conflict, and connect them into a coherent typology. Subsequently, we co-created an overview of different strategies to mitigate counter-productive processes and turn diversity into a true creative asset in transdisciplinary collaboration.