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Workshop Notes
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?
books/reading
- 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