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| A very different alternate reality was explored in [[arboreal_identity|Arboreal Identity]]. Heath Bunting((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Bunting)) and An Mertens((http://www.adashboard.org/?page_id=402)) took participants down the path of identity creation as a storytelling exercise. According to Bunting, legal identities can be seen as constructed social fictions open to creative intervention. A legal person is essentially a web of information that includes phone numbers ID documents, addresses, bank accounts and certificates of various flavours that together form a coherent narrative of social relations which make up the identity of a person. During the tutorial we investigated how such identities can be constructed for a natural, artificial or fictional person, including non-human entities such as trees. In a series of walks and conversations we visited several prominent trees and examined what rights and identities they have according to the current legal system. The ideas generated in the tutorial are being translated by An Mertens into a story and guided tour of Zoniënwoud, an old urban forest on the edges of Brussels which will – as the story goes – acquire a legal voice in the central commune and beyond. | A very different alternate reality was explored in [[arboreal_identity|Arboreal Identity]]. Heath Bunting((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Bunting)) and An Mertens((http://www.adashboard.org/?page_id=402)) took participants down the path of identity creation as a storytelling exercise. According to Bunting, legal identities can be seen as constructed social fictions open to creative intervention. A legal person is essentially a web of information that includes phone numbers ID documents, addresses, bank accounts and certificates of various flavours that together form a coherent narrative of social relations which make up the identity of a person. During the tutorial we investigated how such identities can be constructed for a natural, artificial or fictional person, including non-human entities such as trees. In a series of walks and conversations we visited several prominent trees and examined what rights and identities they have according to the current legal system. The ideas generated in the tutorial are being translated by An Mertens into a story and guided tour of Zoniënwoud, an old urban forest on the edges of Brussels which will – as the story goes – acquire a legal voice in the central commune and beyond. |
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| On the fringes between two species, humans and plants, lies the alternate reality of vegetal culture, where human society is based on principles emerging from the plant world. Inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka and Terrence McKenna's view on the fundamental entanglement of plants and humans, FoAM members Cocky Eek and Maja Kuzmanovic designed a [[:project_groworld_kabk|tutorial for a group of students]] at the ArtScience Interfaculty.((http://www.kabk.nl/pageEN.php?id=0002)) GroWorld Vegetal Culture brought together tutors and participants from other tutorials, along with Duncan Speakman((http://productofcircumstance.com/)) and Tale of Tales,((http://www.tale-of-tales.com/)) to guide a mixed group of nineteen BA and MA students. Through a series of seminars, screenings and [[vegetal_culture_degustation|participatory design exercises]], the students were invited to devise their own interpretations of the concepts behind Borrowed Scenery. At the end of the six weeks, the plethora of ideas and discussions were translated into ten experimental works, ranging from audiobooks to interactive installations and sound walks. It was interesting to see the transformation of the students' view of plants and stories as the projects developed. Most began the tutorial thinking plants were 'boring' but came to realise the versatility and applicability of plant stories in their own lives and works. | On the fringes between two species, humans and plants, lies the alternate reality of vegetal culture, where human society is based on principles emerging from the plant world. Inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka and Terrence McKenna's view on the fundamental entanglement of plants and humans, FoAM members Cocky Eek and Maja Kuzmanovic designed a [[:project_groworld_kabk|tutorial for a group of students]] at the ArtScience Interfaculty.((http://www.kabk.nl/pageEN.php?id=0002)) GroWorld Vegetal Culture brought together tutors and participants from other tutorials, along with Duncan Speakman((http://productofcircumstance.com/)) and Tale of Tales,((http://www.tale-of-tales.com/)) to guide a mixed group of nineteen BA and MA students. Through a series of seminars, screenings and [[vegetal_culture_degustation|participatory design exercises]], the students were invited to devise their own interpretations of the concepts behind Borrowed Scenery. At the end of the six weeks, the plethora of ideas and discussions were translated into ten experimental works, ranging from audiobooks to interactive installations and sound walks. It was interesting to see the transformation of the students' view of plants and stories as the projects developed. Most began the tutorial thinking plants were 'boring' but came to realise the versatility and applicability of plant stories in their own lives and works. |
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