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- | ===Workshop Notes=== | + | ====" |
workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | ||
- | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of quick extinction | + | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction |
- | **Day 1** | + | Photos: http:// |
- | Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés | + | ====Day 1==== |
- | **Different elements of identity** we looked at: | + | walk and tree identofication in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés. |
- | * origin | + | Different elements of identity we looked at: |
- | * age | + | |
- | * gender | + | * age |
- | * position/ | + | * gender |
- | - General parameters that create a ' | + | * position/address/postcode |
- | * minimal: name, date of birth, nationality ~ what's your name? where are you from? how old are you? | + | General parameters that create a 'normal' |
- | -> nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree | + | |
- | -> can nationality | + | * **minimal** for a natural person: name, date of birth, |
+ | * if you cn provide an answer | ||
- | * functional: telephone, email, postal address, gender | + | Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree |
- | * extra: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | + | |
- | * actual: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | + | |
- | * 'What can x do?' | + | |
+ | in some cases nationality could be replaced by citizenship. could this equate to the family or species the tree belongs to? | ||
- | -> create a 'corporation' | + | * // |
+ | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | ||
+ | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | ||
+ | * 'What can x do?' | ||
- | A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | + | proposal to create a ' |
- | + | * 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 human being (material essence, |
- | * a natural person (ID) | + | * a natural person (for example, someone able to produce a state issued |
- | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | * an artificial person (a corporation) |
Personhood is defined by | Personhood is defined by | ||
- | * institutions | + | |
- | * a bureaucratical | + | * a bureaucratic |
- | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | + | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' |
' | ' | ||
- | * kept | + | |
- | * passed on | + | * passed on |
- | * destroyed | + | * destroyed |
- | -> we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert | + | we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert |
- | -> if you don't have a birth certificate, | + | if you don't have a birth certificate, |
**How do we proceed?** | **How do we proceed?** | ||
+ | - **proto-personhood** for trees: ' | ||
+ | - **philosophical**: | ||
+ | - **physicality**: | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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) | ||
+ | |||
+ | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? | ||
+ | |||
+ | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': | ||
+ | |||
+ | Q: 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 | ||
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+ | ====Day 2==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====discussion on the ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | * 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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* Hildegard' | * Hildegard' | ||
* A new green history of the world | * A new green history of the world | ||
+ | * Deep Survival, Lawrence González | ||