CINE-LIANA at ATTO Tower: Two Chapters

The largest tower in Latin America, the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), aims to study the interactions between the forest, soils, and atmosphere of the region in order to understand the role of the Amazon basin for the Earth system. The tower is part of an international cooperation between Brazil and Germany, built and financed by INPA–Amazon Research Institute and Max-Planck Institute. For the project “CINE-LIANA at ATTO Tower: Two Chapters,” the tower was temporarily occupied and transformed into a community radio. The dialogue between scientists and local inhabitants addresses core questions of the debates around the environmental crisis we are living in: How is the public discussion related to it conducted? Which perspectives are represented and where do the different discourses enter into dialogue? During the process, scientific evidence and ancestral knowledges sometimes intersect, occasionally disconnect, while the scientific community listens and also learns more about the struggles in defense of the territories and local livelihoods of the Amazonian populations, demystifying universalizing assumptions.