Joana MacLean is a microbiologist interested in future ecologies and areas of research that allow the involvement of other speculative methodologies. As a PhD student at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, she is currently working on microbial communities in anthropogenic landscapes and plastic-polluted grounds. Her scientific concept as a microbiologist is based on the assumption that organisms are strongly attached to their surrounding geology and evolve through an intimate dialog with the material properties found in the lively surroundings of their habitat. Since 2017, both her artistic and biological research has focused on plastic as a neo-geological material and as a (micro)biological habitat for bacteria and fungi. Using molecular techniques as well as imaging and poetry, she explores future strategies of survival in the terrestrial plastisphere.