Felipe Castelblanco is a postdoctoral fellow at the  Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW, where he investigates forms of human-vegetal alliances in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, through the SNSF funded research project “Plants_Intelligence” (2022-2025). A research project by Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.

Felipe earned a Ph.D. from the Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria) and the Basel Academy of Art and Design HGK FHNW in 2021. His project titled “Cartographies of the Unseen” explored avenues for biocultural peace-building and epistemic justice through participatory art and film across a vertical territory in Andean-Amazon region.