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legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-15 09:57] – created 83.101.5.51legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-16 14:26] – nik
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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.  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?
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 +-> nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree
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 +-> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to?
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 +  * //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
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 +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 
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 +  * 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
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 +  * 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
 +
 +-> a way to reconnect with trees, restore the natural-human relationship
 +f.ex. in Lithuania it is unthinkeable to cut a tree
 +
 +-> create a map of Brussels' forest?
 +
 +-> see artificial arboreality as a business? what does it offer in terms of services (oxygen, fruit, fertile soil) - any shared good is value less in the dominant economic ideology of looking at the world -> maybe think differently?
 +
 +-> look into the 'personalities' of the trees
 +
 +Nik reads Ecuador constitution that has integrated the rights for Nature in the law
 +
 +-> we are the system: there is no authority imposing a system on us, we're the embodiment of a system, our 'identity' is a position of the system we occupy
 +Heath's motivation: If we have rules to manage our identity, we can invent the rules to create identity
 +
 +the human being can occupy most echological niches (of species that disappear)
 +
 +
 +Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes
 +  - Look at information & data that exist already
 +  - question the frequency & absence of parameters, reconceptualize location, speed, appearance of the aboresceal persona
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 +=== 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
 +  * Deep Survival, Lawrence González
  
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