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How can we engage with and rewrite the narratives of our future, by looking at climate change, the human impact on ecosystems, and biotechnology? For the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM on the topic »Planetary Glitch« curated by Mary Maggic, the artist Tiare Ribeaux proposed the project titled Bioplastics Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes, in which Ribeaux examines life and rapidly changing environments as a complex system with the tools of biotechnology. Coming from an art and science background, Ribeaux fabricates an alternative present/near future – creating bioplastics, sharing those recipes, for creating speculative environments of remediation and hybrid indoor and outdoor laboratories, and healing the earth. She asks: »how can we move toward more intentional multispecies and symbiotic futures?« The interview was conducted by Denise Helene Sumi.