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| legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-16 11:51] – 78.29.246.198 | legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-22 17:24] – nik | ||
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| 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 |
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| + | Photos: http:// | ||
| **Day 1** | **Day 1** | ||
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| **Different elements of identity** we looked at: | **Different elements of identity** we looked at: | ||
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| - | * origin | + | * age |
| - | + | * gender | |
| - | * age | + | * position/ |
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| - | * gender | + | |
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| - | * position/ | + | |
| //- General parameters that create a ' | //- General parameters that create a ' | ||
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| -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? | -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? | ||
| - | * // | + | |
| - | + | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | |
| - | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | + | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... |
| - | + | * 'What can x do?' | |
| - | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | + | |
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| - | * 'What can x do?' | + | |
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| Personhood can refer to | Personhood can refer to | ||
| - | * a human being (material essence, person living on the street) | + | |
| - | + | * a natural person (ID) | |
| - | * a natural person (ID) | + | * an artificial person (corporation) |
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| - | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | |
| Personhood is defined by | Personhood is defined by | ||
| - | * institutions | + | |
| - | + | * a bureaucratical system | |
| - | * a bureaucratical system | + | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' |
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| - | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | + | |
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| - | * kept | + | |
| - | + | * passed on | |
| - | * passed on | + | * destroyed |
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| - | * destroyed | + | |
| -> we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert some human dna-fragment in it... | -> we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert some human dna-fragment in it... | ||
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| **How do we proceed?** | **How do we proceed?** | ||
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| - | 2/ " | + | |
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| - | 3/ " | + | |
| A lot of trees have numbers, all trees have a owner in Belgium but with different status (forest, private property, city of bssls) | A lot of trees have numbers, all trees have a owner in Belgium but with different status (forest, private property, city of bssls) | ||
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| - | Day 2 | + | **Day 2** |
| - looked at 'Oak du marais' | - looked at 'Oak du marais' | ||
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| - 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) | - 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 ' | + | -// discussion on the ' |
| We create it and integrate it in our daily language, start taking it into account -> method of ' | We create it and integrate it in our daily language, start taking it into account -> method of ' | ||
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| Look at the bigger picture: what if trees have legal identity & rights? | 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 | How will we co-live with them: as separate entities or as chimera of tree/humans | ||
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| + | -> a way to reconnect with trees, restore the natural-human relationship | ||
| + | f.ex. in Lithuania it is unthinkeable to cut a tree | ||
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| + | -> create a map of Brussels' | ||
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| + | -> 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? | ||
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| + | -> look into the ' | ||
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| + | Nik reads Ecuador constitution that has integrated the rights for Nature in the law | ||
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| + | -> we are the system: there is no authority imposing a system on us, we're the embodiment of a system, our ' | ||
| + | Heath' | ||
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| + | 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 | ||
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