Forever Motoring
We are moved at so many levels of landscape, be those traditionally physical, emotional, mental or virtual. From city designers to coders to car manufacturers, we can work together to create a better vision for motoring.
A 'motor' is the source of any vehicle that moves us, and those vehicles come at many different scales. Whether it is a bike, a car, or a piece of music, a motor is anything that moves us consistently and structures the ways and means of our movement.
Ecological transportation begins with understanding that the vehicles and infrastructures moving us create cognitive systems. Our minds have been channeled in part by the ways we motor--the ways we move ourselves, our materials, and our ideas.
EMI (the ecological motoring initiative) creates and facilitates conversations towards a new notion of motoring. We believe part of the work to be done is in noticing and better understanding the current cognitive systems being created by our forms of motoring, observing the ways they structure our daily lives and activities, and moving into the desirable unknown with a whole new vision of what motoring can be, including its means and materials.
How can we meet the motoring needs of all in a way that is ecological? What does it mean to move within the means of the living planet? How can we move in ways that inspire and motivate us and increase our potentials longterm?
Let’s think through these issues together towards a healthier future and a whole new kind of motoring.
Forever Motoring
15 Minutes with Yulina: Females in Motorsport Series
Hello, everyone. This is a short 15 minute episode, one of a series in which we hear from women in motor sports about the business and about being a woman in it from different angles and sides. It's part of a larger blog post that you can find on the website, www.forevermotoring.com.
This conversation is with a motorcycle racer named Yulina, or rosyulina on Instagram.
She started out as a promotion girl, a grid girl, one of those beautiful women holding umbrellas for the male racers. Then she decided she wanted to be on the bike for herself. And she did it. But it's been quite a hard journey--physically, financially, and in terms of negotiating the things women have to negotiate relative to their image and how they fit into a typically male world.
Yulina is constantly trying to figure this out. How much does she promote herself? How much did she show her body? How much did she not?
She talks about it all on her Instagram, and I find that refreshing. I'm going to link to some of those posts. So you can just look for yourself. Because I don't have the answers to any of this. But it's something interesting to think about and something we should think about.
And it's definitely something that's changing now.
The woman she discusses in the clip--the person she watched in the Transformer films when she was a kid and wanted to be like--is Megan Fox.
Here are some examples from her Instagram:
Construction
Better Person Every Day
Meeting Goals
Can I Be a Racer
Coming to Terms with Your Body
Accepting Grid Girl Days
Scars