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 workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; Heath Bunting, An Mertens, guillaume neu-rinaudo, reg carremans, karin ulmer, lucia penninckx, els de greef, rasa alksnyte, nik gaffney, maja kuzmanovic.
+Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of quick extinction
+**Day 1**
+Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés
+**Different elements of identity** we looked at:
+* origin
+* age
+* gender
+* position/postcode
+//- General parameters that create a 'normal' identity://
+* //minimal//: name, date of birth, nationality ~ what's your name? where are you from? how old are you?
+-> nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree
+-> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to?
+* //functional//: telephone, email, postal address, gender
+* //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number
+* //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace...
+* 'What can x do?'
+-> create a 'corporation' around the tree?
+A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona
+Personhood can refer to
+* a human being (material essence, person living on the street)
+* a natural person (ID)
+* an artificial person (corporation)
+Personhood is defined by
+* institutions
+* a bureaucratical system
+* data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> 'invocation' of persona
+'Natural and articifial persons' are considered to be the property of a human being, any property can be
+* kept
+* passed on
+* destroyed
+-> we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert some human dna-fragment in it...
+-> if you don't have a birth certificate, you need a story
+**How do we proceed?**
+/ "proto-personhood" for trees: 'law', relationships of management & property
+/ "philosophical": why
+/ "physicality": 'functionality', relationships to other people/things
+A lot of trees have numbers, all trees have a owner in Belgium but with different status (forest, private property, city of bssls)
+So maybe interesting to add the parameter of 'owner/user' to the series of tree-parameters and talk about 'lineage/species' instead of nationality
+-> who owns it? Who has an interest in using it?
+A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': a tree in the city will be different, climbed, polluted, dependant on humans (candle stick prunage)...)
+-> where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up?
+We make a checklist and look at it from different perspectives
+Perspective of a tree: does not want to be chopped off & wants the right to light, soil & water
+Day 2
+- looked at 'Oak du marais' in rue des Minimes, transplanted 6 years ago from somewhere else, serves as a 'bar', a meeting place, lighted by humans, hosts birds...
+- look at trees in front of Walvis, planned to be chopped: platans, protest because they are the 2 only trees at that side of the Boulevard (between Yser & Porte de Ninove), and because they will be replaced by 3 new trees planted 3,5 m closer to the bar (effect: the terrace will be half as big)
+- discussion on the 'arboresceal persona'
+We create it and integrate it in our daily language, start taking it into account -> method of 'invocation', it will start to exist
+Look at the bigger picture: what if trees have legal identity & rights?
+How will we co-live with them: as separate entities or as chimera of tree/humans
+=== books/reading ===
+  * Compendium of Symb & ritual plants in Europe
+  * Guide to wild foods
+  * Mycelium running: how mushrooms can help save the world
+  * The revenge of Gaia
+  * The end of the wild
+  * Hildegard's healing plants
+  * A new green history of the world