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Endy was one of the pioneers of synthetic biology, and co-founded the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), which has been instrumental to the growth of the field.Outside of the lab, his work promotes open-source biotechnology and using synthetic biology to enable humans to live more harmoniously with our environment.At Haraway's kitchen table, over a plate of heritage tomatoes and locally-made cheese and bread, Haraway and Endy explore how tools of care, storytelling, play, and activism might guide us towards a generative, less destructive biological future.This serves as the concluding conversation for Other Biological Futures.Donna Haraway: Both of us, as I experience our work, are profoundly committed to the living and dying world, to the Earth itself.Anything we do as craftspeople -as writers, as engineers, as workers with each other -has to be about thickening relationality for and with the Earth.This way our work can forestall the consumerism, the extractivism, the extinctionism, and the practices of destruction that we experience so profoundly in the world as excessively privileged professionals who are in no doubt about the degree to which our lives are part of what's now being referred to as the Anthropocene.We know this acutely, and we try to live and practice in such a way as to deactivate the militarism and the extractivism and be part of a care-taking of each other in response to a world that values only growth in its capitalist and related modes.The only possible answer to that is not further accumulation and securitization and enclosure of commons and so on, but rather figuring out what it actually means to take care of each other.What would that mean for bioengineering on the one hand, and science and technology studies on the other?And what does it mean to be a serious thinker, where the job is figuring out how to take care of each other with the skills at hand? Drew Endy: I've brought along a vanilla bean to add to the other biological things we have on the table here.This bean, as an artifact, is interesting to me because it represents this intersection of nature and enterprise and colonialism and plantation and trade, and one of the molecules in this bean has become a totem of dysfunctional discourse in the space of biotechnology.