# Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [150]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), undated, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/reykjavik_briefing/index.html. Text: document text - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Briefing on disaster relief and distributed infrastructure: the six ways to die applied to shelter. - Career works it belongs to: - Folding hexayurt (2007): An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in... (suggested by machine) - Six ways people die (2008): Framework: people die of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness or injury, so infrastructure has to answer... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurt Country (2010): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would... (suggested by machine) - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Reykjavik (2 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); Progressive Building Solutions (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 1 undated); Six Ways To Die (2 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 3 undated); Capital Partners (1 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); Six ways (2 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 5 undated); Folding hexayurt (1 here; 13 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); distributed infrastructure (1 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); Haiti (1 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated); Hexayurt Project (1 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.29 (1.00 is the top), number 258 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing, document, undated, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/reykjavik_briefing/index.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [150], https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/reykjavik_briefing/index.html) The Reykjavik Briefing Distributed Infrastucture, Disaster Relief and Hexayurts The Reykjavik Briefing is an hour-long presentation on the history of disaster relief, the problems funding innovation in a humanitarian context, human survival modeling, disaster economics, distributed infrastructure design and finally the goal state of overhauling the way shelter and essential services are provided in some kinds of disasters. Six Ways To Die Six Ways to Die is a five minute clip from the middle of the video which explains some basic concepts about how infrastructure works in normal life and disaster. If you're interested in social resilience, crisis response and similar situations this video is a good, quick introduction to some useful new ideas. Open your browser very wide to see the video and the accompanying graphic side-by-side. PDF file of the diagram is here. Additional supporting materials The Full Briefing One hour of the good stuff. If you would like the high quality footage, please download this quicktime file (700 mb, 1 hour.) Thanks! To you for taking the time to watch these briefings. Thanks to Ananda Marga Iceland for making the connection with the AMURT Haiti relief group and to Aura Capital Partners for hosting and participating. The Hexayurt Project has additional information on the shelters and infrastructure approach, and please feel free to contact us . You can see video of the commercial folding hexayurt prototype at Progressive Building Solutions , who have supported the project this year. The jacket is from DEAD and is worn to remind people that death is our business. --- End of [150] Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.