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

Day 1

Look at trees in Forest de Soignes / Verdronken Kinderen-Enfants Noyés

Different elements of identity we looked at:

* origin * age * gender * position/postcode - General parameters that create a 'normal' identity:

* minimal: name, date of birth, nationality ~ what's your name? where are you from? how old are you? → nationality is complex in general, and also for the tree

→ can nationality be replaced by citizenship? Or by 'family'/species the tree belongs to?

* functional: telephone, email, postal address, gender * extra: health insurance number, debit card/bank account, tax number * actual: website, facebook, linkedin, myspace… * 'What can x do?'

→ create a 'corporation' around the tree?

A new legal persona is not necessarily a natural persona

Personhood can refer to * a human being (material essence, person living on the street) * a natural person (ID) * an artificial person (corporation)

Personhood is defined by * institutions * a bureaucratical system * 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 * kept * passed on * destroyed

→ we could wrap a corporation around the tree, insert some human dna-fragment in it…

→ if you don't have a birth certificate, you need a story

How do we proceed?

• Compendium of Symb & ritual plants in Europe
• Guide to wild foods
• Mycelium running: how mushrooms can help save the world
• The revenge of Gaia
• The end of the wild
• Hildegard's healing plants
• A new green history of the world