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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:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | ====Workshop 1: 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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+ | ====Workshop 1: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/humans | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | ====Workshop 2: Day1==== | ||
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+ | ===Introduction of remarkable trees in Zoniënwoud/ | ||
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+ | * //the oak// | ||
+ | * //the colonialised tree//: beech of 1882 with an enormous gall, first impression is that of a strong powerful tree, when you look behind it, you see it is invaded by the parasite mushroom Ustulina Deusta -> //possible stories//: the forest is considered to be a museum because of its 'beech cathedral' | ||
+ | * //The solidary and the miraculeus//: | ||
+ | * //Prince charming//: hornbeam/ | ||
+ | * //The Quadruplet//: | ||
+ | * //The kissing trees// | ||
+ | * other trees: the larch (fast grower, encourages the young beeches to grow), the lime tree, the birch with fungi ... | ||
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+ | ===Creation of identities=== | ||
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+ | * ' | ||
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+ | * ' | ||
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+ | * ' | ||
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+ | * ' | ||
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+ | Other thoughts: | ||
+ | * As humans we have the ability to change our mind: responding to our basic needs, we can change the status of the place (Foret de Soignes can be a reserve or a domain for agriculture (everyone can cut tree down), important to ' | ||
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+ | * what are we trying to protect: money, income – security mechanism, fight to exist (we find it very difficult to give up things, f.ex. give up mobile phone, psychological reasons), change politically for luxury. Fitting / doesn' | ||
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+ | ====Workshop 2: Day2==== | ||
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+ | Exploration of trees in the city of Brussels (1000) | ||
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+ | ** * Introduction to the juridic context & management of trees and parks** | ||
+ | It is complicated :-) | ||
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+ | These public trees can belong to different official owners: the city, the Region (regional roads & parks), the king, the federal state. This is the first thing to find out. | ||
+ | All trees in protected parks are also protected: Parc ROyal, Egmontpark, Leopoldpark, | ||
+ | The trees in Regional parks and on Regional roads are signed with a number. | ||
+ | The newly planted trees in the city of Brussels have only been registered since 2008. In 2011 the city started an (non-publicly accessible) inventory of all trees in 1000 Brussels. It is not finished yet. The rumour goes there are about 40000 different trees. | ||
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+ | The Region has set up a public database on ' | ||
+ | Selection criteria are: a considerable trunk (at 1,5m), the localisation (the more visible for the more people, more remarkable), | ||
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+ | The team of the 'Cel Groene Zones' of the city of Brussels has selection criteria to chose trees to plant. The trees are ' | ||
+ | * their roots resist salt (in winter) | ||
+ | * they resist pollution (cars/ | ||
+ | * they resist litter & vandalism (when you break a branch of a fruit tree it will not survive) | ||
+ | * they can stand presence of humans at their roots (a walnut tree needs rest at the roots for the first 15y of its life, treading the soil condenses the soil and puts pressure on the roots) | ||
+ | * they are easy to maintain and don't cause too much trouble for inhabitants (leafs that fall off, block the sewage etc) | ||
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+ | Trees that are frequently planted: plataan, ash, lime tree, hazel, hawthorn | ||
+ | Another criteria that is on stake for trees in the city: the presence of sewage, waterinfrastructure, | ||
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+ | ** * exploration city** | ||
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+ | //Walk in the city center//, looking at trees, what they provide us with, how we could ent them | ||
+ | Final destination: | ||
+ | Discovery: the mini-oasis of biodiversity on Pantsertroepensquare, | ||
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+ | //Walk in the city forest//: park of Laken where trees are like ' | ||
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+ | ===References=== | ||
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+ | **Books** | ||
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+ | * Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees, Scala, 2009 | ||
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+ | **Law & Management Links** | ||
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+ | * Brussels Capital Region law & management: | ||
+ | *[[http:// | ||
+ | *[[http:// | ||
+ | *[[http:// | ||
+ | *[[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
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+ | * Brussels City (1000), Cel Groene Zones - responsable for choosing, planting & maintaining trees in 1000 Brussels: Patrick Maes Patrick.Maes@brucity.be 02/2796006 | ||
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+ | * Le code forestier [[http:// | ||
+ | * Garde Forestier Verdronken Kinderen: Mr Willy Vandevelde (FR): 0497/599 463 | ||
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+ | **Different uses of trees** | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * Leafsnap (app Iphone) | ||
+ | * boskoi (app Foam, location edible plants in the city) | ||