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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: |
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| + | * age | ||
| + | * gender | ||
| + | * position/ | ||
| - | * age | + | General parameters that create a ' |
| - | * gender | + | |
| + | * if you can provide an answer to the questions: " | ||
| - | * position/ | + | Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree |
| - | //- General parameters that create a ' | + | in some cases nationality could be replaced by citizenship. could this equate to the family or species the tree belongs to? |
| - | * //minimal//: name, date of birth, nationality ~ what's your name? where are you from? how old are you? | + | |
| + | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | ||
| + | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | ||
| + | * 'What can x do?' | ||
| - | -> nationality | + | proposal to create a ' |
| + | * A new legal 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) | ||
| - | -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? | + | Personhood is defined by |
| + | * institutions | ||
| + | * a bureaucratic system | ||
| + | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning | ||
| - | * // | + | ' |
| + | * kept | ||
| + | * passed on | ||
| + | * destroyed | ||
| - | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | + | we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert a human dna-fragment in it... |
| - | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | + | if you don't have a birth certificate, you need a story... |
| - | * 'What can x do?' | + | **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) | ||
| - | -> create a 'corporation' | + | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of 'owner/user' |
| - | A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | + | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? |
| - | Personhood | + | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': |
| - | * a human being (material essence, person living on the street) | + | Q: where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? |
| - | * a natural person (ID) | + | We make a checklist and look at it from different perspectives |
| - | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | Perspective of a tree: does not want to be chopped off & wants the right to light, soil & water |
| - | Personhood is defined by | ||
| - | * institutions | + | ====Day 2==== |
| - | * a bureaucratical system | + | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' |
| - | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | + | 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) |
| - | 'Natural and articifial persons' | + | ====discussion on the 'arboresceal persona'==== |
| - | * kept | + | |
| + | * 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) | ||
| - | * passed on | ||
| - | * destroyed | + | Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes |
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| + | * question the frequency & absence of parameters, reconceptualize location, speed, appearance of the aboresceal persona | ||
| - | -> we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert some 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?** | ||
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| * Hildegard' | * Hildegard' | ||
| * A new green history of the world | * A new green history of the world | ||
| + | * Deep Survival, Lawrence González | ||
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