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- | ===Workshop Notes=== | + | ====" |
- | workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | + | |
+ | * workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | ||
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+ | * workshop on 20130406 and 20130407. participants: | ||
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+ | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction | ||
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+ | Photos: | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | ====Background, | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | ====Day 1==== | ||
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+ | walk and tree identofication in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés. | ||
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+ | Different elements of identity we looked at: | ||
+ | * origin | ||
+ | * age | ||
+ | * gender | ||
+ | * position/ | ||
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+ | General parameters that create a ' | ||
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+ | * **minimal** for a natural person: name, date of birth, nationality | ||
+ | * if you can provide an answer to the questions: " | ||
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+ | Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree | ||
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+ | in some cases nationality could be replaced by citizenship. could this equate to the family or species the tree belongs to? | ||
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+ | * // | ||
+ | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | ||
+ | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | ||
+ | * 'What can x do?' | ||
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+ | proposal to create a ' | ||
+ | * A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | ||
+ | * Personhood can refer to | ||
+ | * a human being (material essence, for example a person living on the street) | ||
+ | * a natural person (for example, someone able to produce a state issued ID) | ||
+ | * an artificial person (a corporation) | ||
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+ | Personhood is defined by | ||
+ | * institutions | ||
+ | * a bureaucratic system | ||
+ | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | ||
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+ | ' | ||
+ | * kept | ||
+ | * passed on | ||
+ | * destroyed | ||
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+ | we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert a human dna-fragment in it... | ||
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+ | if you don't have a birth certificate, | ||
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+ | **How do we proceed? | ||
+ | - **proto-personhood** for trees: ' | ||
+ | - **philosophical**: | ||
+ | - **physicality**: | ||
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+ | A lot of trees have numbers (is there a register? how is it managed?), we can presume all trees have a owner in Belgium but owners may have different status (forest, private property, city of brussels) | ||
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+ | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' | ||
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+ | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? | ||
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+ | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': | ||
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+ | Q: where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? | ||
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+ | We make a checklist and look at it from different perspectives | ||
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+ | Perspective of a tree: does not want to be chopped off & wants the right to light, soil & water | ||
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+ | ====Day 2==== | ||
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+ | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' | ||
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+ | Look at the plane trees (platane) in front of the Walvis. they are planned to be chopped down, and a local protest was mounted because they are the 2 only trees at that side of the Boulevard (between Yser & Porte de Ninove). There is a plan to replace them with 3 new trees planted 3,5 m closer to the bar (effect: the terrace will be half as big) | ||
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+ | ====discussion on the ' | ||
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+ | * We can create it and integrate it in our daily language, start taking it into account -> method of ' | ||
+ | * Look at the bigger picture: what if trees have legal identity & rights? How will we live alongside them: as separate entities or as chimera of tree/ | ||
+ | * a way to reconnect with trees, restore the natural-human relationship. e.g in some parts of Lithuania it is unthinkeable to cut a tree. | ||
+ | * can we create a map of Brussels' | ||
+ | * do we 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 ' | ||
+ | * Ecuadorian 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 ' | ||
+ | * Heath' | ||
+ | * the human being can occupy most echological niches (of species that disappear) | ||
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+ | 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 & further reading ==== | ||
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+ | UK barrister Bob Colover and Heath Bunting discuss the legal issues around identities. What constitutes a person? What is the difference between an artificial and a natural person? And what are the legal aspects of buying an identity? in " | ||
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+ | * Compendium of Symbolic & 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' | ||
+ | * A new green history of the world | ||
+ | * Deep Survival, Lawrence González | ||