Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez, based in Pasto, Colombia, is a university professor who holds a PhD in Literature, as well as the general editor of the publishing house Ediciones Vestigio. He is the author of Cuerpos luminares y de otras dimensiones (2023), a critical work exploring Colombian science fiction, as well as the novel Las dimensiones absolutas (2025). He edited the anthologies Relojes que no marcan la misma hora (2017) and El tercer mundo después del sol (2021), among others.
For his Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship Project, he will coordinate a series of public convenings at the Prosa del Mundo bookstore in Bogotá, Colombia. The meetings will be hosted by representatives from Ediciones Vestigio, a fiction publisher; Revista Micelio, a magazine focused on issues of nature and the environment; and Otros Presentes, a philosophical group focused particularly on animal studies. In these meetings, participants will reflect on how we imagine, from a Colombian point of view, a mode of fiction that responds to local climate challenges, as well as envisioning futures that counter the apocalyptic visions promoted by powerful corporate entities. Meetings will include readings and discussions of chapters from CSI’s book Climate Imagination and will lead to the creation of a small publication blending essays and fiction stories.