Knowledge tipping points: Co-creating rainforest futures

Knowledge tipping points: Co-creating rainforest futures The article highlights the importance of envisioning multiple futures for human and rainforest coexistence. It emphasizes forest conviviality and knowledge co-creation, drawing insights from the PRODIGY research project, which shows that knowledge systems are essential for socioecological resilience. Imagining multiple futures is not just an intellectual exercise; it is a matter of life itself. Here, the concepts of forest conviviality and knowledge co-creation capture the need for coexistence between human societies and the rainforest. The results of the PRODIGY research project highlight that knowledge in the Southwestern Amazon is not merely a side effect of change but one of its most powerful drivers. In this context, ‘knowledge’ does not refer only to science, but to all forms of knowing: scientific, Indigenous, and forest practices in everyday life. Each of these knowledge systems holds value, offering different ways of relating to land, water, and forest. This epistemic diversity, meaning diversity in ways of knowing and understanding the world, is not simply cultural richness; it is a critical component of socioecological resilience. Forest relations shaped solely by extractive thinking tend toward instability, while those grounded in multiple ways of knowing are better equipped to adapt to crises without collapse.