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legal_identity_for_trees [2013-02-14 04:51] – nik | legal_identity_for_trees [2013-04-17 09:17] – [Arboreal Identity Workshop Notes] 78.29.246.198 | ||
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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: |
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+ | ====Background, | ||
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====Day 1==== | ====Day 1==== | ||
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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, | ||
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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==== | ====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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