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| legal_identity_for_trees [2013-02-14 04:51] – [discussion on the 'arboresceal persona'] nik | legal_identity_for_trees [2013-04-17 10:05] – [Books, links, references] https://profiles.google.com/113268139502884597619 | ||
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| - | 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: |
| + | * http:// | ||
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| + | ====Background, | ||
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| + | * http:// | ||
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| - | ====Day 1==== | + | ====Workshop 1: Day 1==== |
| walk and tree identofication in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés. | walk and tree identofication in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés. | ||
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| * age | * age | ||
| * gender | * gender | ||
| - | * position/ | + | * position/address/postcode |
| General parameters that create a ' | General parameters that create a ' | ||
| * **minimal** for a natural person: name, date of birth, nationality | * **minimal** for a natural person: name, date of birth, nationality | ||
| - | * if you cn provide an answer to the questions: | + | * if you can provide an answer to the questions: |
| Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree | Nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree | ||
| - | in some cases nationality | + | in some cases nationality |
| * // | * // | ||
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| * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | * //actual//: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace... | ||
| * 'What can x do?' | * 'What can x do?' | ||
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| proposal to create a ' | proposal to create a ' | ||
| * A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | * A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona | ||
| * Personhood can refer to | * Personhood can refer to | ||
| - | * a human being (material essence, person living on the street) | + | * a human being (material essence, |
| - | * a natural person (ID) | + | * a natural person (for example, someone able to produce a state issued |
| - | * an artificial person (corporation) | + | * an artificial person (a corporation) |
| Personhood is defined by | Personhood is defined by | ||
| - | * institutions | + | * institutions |
| - | * a bureaucratical | + | * a bureaucratic |
| * 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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| * 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?** | ||
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| 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) | 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) | ||
| - | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' | + | So maybe interesting to add the parameter of ' |
| Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? | Q: who owns it? Who has an interest in using it? | ||
| - | 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? | Q: where do the seeds come from? where did it grow up? | ||
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| - | ====Day 2==== | + | ====Workshop 1:Day 2==== |
| - | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' | + | We looked at an 'Oak du marais' |
| 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) | 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) | ||
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| * We can 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 co-live with them: as separate entities or as chimera of tree/humans | + | * Look at the bigger picture: what if trees have legal identity & rights? How will we live alongside |
| * 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. | * 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' | * 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? | * 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 ' | * look into the ' | ||
| - | * Nik reads Ecuador | + | * Ecuadorian |
| - | * we are the system: there is no authority imposing a system on us, we're the embodiment of a system, our ' | + | * we are the system: there is no authority imposing a system on us, we're the embodiment of a system, our ' |
| - | * Heath' | + | * Heath' |
| * the human being can occupy most echological niches (of species that disappear) | * the human being can occupy most echological niches (of species that disappear) | ||
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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 " | ||
| - | === 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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| + | ====Workshop 2: Day1==== | ||
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| + | ====Workshop 2: Day2==== | ||
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| + | ====Books, links, references==== | ||
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| + | **Books** | ||
| + | * Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees, Scala, 2009 | ||
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| + | **Law & Management Links** | ||
| + | * Brussels Capital Region law & management: | ||
| + | *[[BIM Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer|http:// | ||
| + | *[[Ruimtelijke Ordening wetgeving|http:// | ||
| + | *[[Monumenten en Landschappen|http:// | ||
| + | *[[Monumenten en Landschappen inventary of remarkable trees in Brussels Region |http:// | ||
| + | * [[Monumenten en Landschappen: | ||
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| + | * Brussels City (1000), Cel Groene Zones - responsable for choosing, planting & maintaining trees in 1000 Brussels: Patrick Maes Patrick.Maes@brucity.be 02/2796006 | ||
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| + | * Le code forestier [[Flanders|http:// | ||
| + | * Garde Forestier Verdroncken Kinderen: Mr Willy Vandevelde (FR): 0497/599 463 | ||
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