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| - | ===Workshop Notes=== | + | ====" |
| - | workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | + | |
| - | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of quick extinction | + | * workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; |
| - | **Day 1** | + | |
| - | Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés | + | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction |
| - | **Different elements of identity** we looked at: | + | Photos: |
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| - | * origin | + | ====Background, |
| - | * age | + | |
| + | * http:// | ||
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| + | * http:// | ||
| + | * http:// | ||
| - | * gender | + | ====Workshop 1: Day 1==== |
| - | * position/postcode | + | walk and tree identofication in Forest de Soignes |
| - | //- General parameters that create a ' | + | Different elements of identity |
| + | * origin | ||
| + | * age | ||
| + | * gender | ||
| + | * position/address/postcode | ||
| - | * // | + | General parameters that create a 'normal' |
| - | -> nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree | + | * **minimal** |
| + | * if you can provide an answer to the questions: " | ||
| - | -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? | + | Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree |
| - | * // | + | in some cases nationality could be replaced by citizenship. could this equate to the family or species the tree belongs to? |
| - | * //extra//: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number | + | * // |
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| + | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | ||
| + | * 'What can x do?' | ||
| - | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | + | proposal to create a ' |
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| - | * 'What can x do?' | + | |
| - | + | * a human being (material essence, | |
| - | + | * a natural person (for example, someone able to produce a state issued | |
| - | -> create a ' | + | * an artificial person (a corporation) |
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| - | A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | + | |
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| - | Personhood can refer to | + | |
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| - | * a human being (material essence, person living on the street) | + | |
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| - | * a natural person (ID) | + | |
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| - | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | |
| Personhood is defined by | Personhood is defined by | ||
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| - | * institutions | + | * a bureaucratic |
| - | + | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | |
| - | * a bureaucratical | + | |
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| - | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | + | |
| ' | ' | ||
| + | * kept | ||
| + | * passed on | ||
| + | * destroyed | ||
| - | * kept | + | we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert a human dna-fragment in it... |
| - | * passed on | + | if you don't have a birth certificate, |
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| - | * destroyed | + | |
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| - | -> 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, | + | |
| **How do we proceed?** | **How do we proceed?** | ||
| + | - **proto-personhood** for trees: ' | ||
| + | - **philosophical**: | ||
| + | - **physicality**: | ||
| - | 1/ " | + | 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 |
| - | 2/ " | + | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of 'owner/user' to the series of tree-parameters and talk about ' |
| - | 3/ " | + | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? |
| - | A lot of trees have numbers, all trees have a owner in Belgium but with different | + | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': |
| - | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' | + | Q: where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? |
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| - | -> 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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| - | -> where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? | + | |
| We make a checklist and look at it from different perspectives | We make a checklist and look at it from different perspectives | ||
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| - | Day 2 | + | ====Workshop 1:Day 2==== |
| - | - looked at 'Oak du marais' | + | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' |
| - | - 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 the plane trees (platane) |
| - | - discussion on the ' | + | ====discussion on the ' |
| - | We create it and integrate it in our daily language, start taking it into account -> method of ' | + | * 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/ | ||
| + | * 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) | ||
| - | 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 | ||
| + | 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 & further reading ==== | ||
| + | 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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| - | === books/ | + | |
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| * Guide to wild foods | * Guide to wild foods | ||
| * Mycelium running: how mushrooms can help save the world | * Mycelium running: how mushrooms can help save the world | ||
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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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