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- | ===Workshop Notes=== | + | ====" |
- | workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | + | |
+ | * workshop on 20121012 and 20121013. participants; | ||
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+ | * workshop on 20130406 and 20130407. participants: | ||
Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction | Concept: Legal identity of trees in period of rapid extinction | ||
- | Photos: http:// | + | Photos: |
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+ | ====Background, | ||
- | **Day 1** | + | |
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- | 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. |
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+ | Different elements of identity we looked at: | ||
* origin | * origin | ||
* age | * age | ||
* gender | * gender | ||
- | * position/ | + | * position/address/postcode |
- | //- General parameters that create a ' | + | General parameters that create a ' |
- | * //minimal//: name, date of birth, nationality | + | * **minimal** for a natural person: name, date of birth, nationality |
+ | * if you can provide an answer to the questions: "what's your name?", "where are you from?", "how old are you?" | ||
- | -> nationality | + | Nationality |
- | -> can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to? | + | in some cases nationality |
* // | * // | ||
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* 'What can x do?' | * 'What can x do?' | ||
- | + | proposal to create a ' | |
- | -> create a ' | + | |
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- | A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | + | * a human being (material essence, |
- | + | * a natural person (for example, someone able to produce a state issued | |
- | Personhood can refer to | + | * an artificial person (a corporation) |
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- | * a natural person (ID) | + | |
- | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | |
Personhood is defined by | Personhood is defined by | ||
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- | | + | * a bureaucratic |
- | * a bureaucratical | + | |
* data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | * data: if you have enough data you can find/create meaning -> ' | ||
' | ' | ||
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* kept | * 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 |
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- | A lot of trees have numbers, all trees have a owner in Belgium but with different status (forest, private property, city of bssls) | + | So maybe interesting to add the parameter |
- | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' | + | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? |
- | -> who owns it? Who has an interest | + | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context': |
- | A tree is defined by lineage but also by 'the context' | + | Q: where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? |
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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** | + | ====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 ' |
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- | 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/ | + | * 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? | |
- | -> a way to reconnect with trees, restore the natural-human relationship | + | |
- | f.ex. in Lithuania it is unthinkeable to cut a tree | + | * Ecuadorian |
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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 | + | |
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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) | + | |
Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes | Next phase: proof of concept, create prototypes | ||
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+ | === 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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* A new green history of the world | * A new green history of the world | ||
* Deep Survival, Lawrence González | * Deep Survival, Lawrence González | ||
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