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--- legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-16 11:05] – 78.29.246.198
+++ legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-22 17:24] – 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.
-Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of quick extinction
+Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction
-Day 1
+Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157631828144552/
-- Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés
-- different elements of identity we looked at:
+**Day 1**
-* origin
-* age
+Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés
-* gender
-* position/postcode
+**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?
-- 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
-other possible parameters:
+  * //functional//: telephone, email, postal address, gender
-health insurance
+  * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number
-fax
+  * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace...
-bank account
+  * '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
+-> 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
 === books/reading ===
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   * Hildegard's healing plants
   * A new green history of the world
+  * Deep Survival, Lawrence González