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legal_identity_for_trees [2012-10-16 12:10] 78.29.246.198legal_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.  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 
 + 
 +Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157631828144552/
  
 **Day 1** **Day 1**
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 **Different elements of identity** we looked at: **Different elements of identity** we looked at:
- +  * origin 
-* origin +  * age 
- +  * gender 
-* age +  * position/postcode
- +
-* gender +
- +
-* position/postcode+
  
 //- General parameters that create a 'normal' identity:// //- General parameters that create a 'normal' identity://
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 -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to? -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to?
  
-* //functional//: telephone, email, postal address, gender +  * //functional//: telephone, email, postal address, gender 
- +  * //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... +
- +
-* '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 human being (material essence, person living on the street) 
- +  * a natural person (ID) 
-* a natural person (ID) +  * an artificial person (corporation)
- +
-* an artificial person (corporation)+
  
 Personhood is defined by  Personhood is defined by 
  
-* institutions +  * institutions 
- +  * a bureaucratical system  
-* a bureaucratical system  +  * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> 'invocation' of persona
- +
-* 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 'Natural and articifial persons' are considered to be the property of a human being, any property can be
  
-* kept +  * kept 
- +  * passed on 
-* passed on +  * destroyed
- +
-* 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?**
  
-1/ "proto-personhood" for trees: 'law', relationships of management & property +  - "proto-personhood" for trees: 'law', relationships of management & property 
- +  "philosophical": why 
-2/ "philosophical": why +  "physicality": 'functionality', relationships to other people/things
- +
-3/ "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) 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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 -> look into the 'personalities' of the trees -> look into the 'personalities' of the trees
  
-Nik reads Ecuador constitution that has integrated the rights for an 'eco-system' in the law+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 -> 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
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 Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes
- +  - Look at information & data that exist already 
-- 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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-- question the frequency & absence of parameters, reconceptualize location, speed, appearance of the aboresceal persona+
  
  
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