# RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [170]. 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 (Text), 2002 (year of the work, not of publication), http://projects.mindtel.com/2002/02.SustainableSettlements/. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): The 2002 refugee-encampment charrette where the plan, and the hexayurt, began. - Career works it belongs to: - RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002): Rocky Mountain Institute workshop on sustainable settlements where the Hexayurt idea took shape a second time. - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut. (suggested by machine) - Whole-Systems Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production (2003): Rocky Mountain Institute report for the Danish Environmental Protection Agency on sustainable consumption... (suggested by machine) - Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green development path is... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Settlements Charrette (2 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); UNHCR (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); refugees (2 here; 84 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): refugees; Settlements Charrette; UNHCR - Importance: core-text score 0.12 (1.00 is the top), number 473 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [752] [Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md): career thread: Hexayurt (second genesis) - [118] [File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md): career thread: Hexayurt (second genesis) - On the same works, just after: [201] [Colophon, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2003)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md); [102] [Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md); [103] [Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) ## 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: RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette, document, 2002, http://projects.mindtel.com/2002/02.SustainableSettlements/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [170], https://guptaoption.com/texts/170.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://projects.mindtel.com/2002/02.SustainableSettlements/) Origin: wayback Sustainable Settlements Charrette About the Charrette Proposal Welcome Letter Rocky Mountain Inst. ---------------------- El Capitan Canyon Canyon Website Aerial Images ---------------------- Participants CMI Village Earth Engineers w/o Borders Sustainable Village WFP Solar Elec. Light Fund UNICEF ZERI Natural Sys. Int'l, LLC WAPHA Fungi Perfecti, Inc. UNHCR NSF NREL Refugees International Whole Earth Magazine Rocky Mountain Inst. Visual Eyes ---------------------- Images Aerial Images/video Dymax Tent Sat Comms Bob Younger's Images Bob Younger's Images 2 Misc event 1 Misc event 2 ---------------------- Notes/Reports Documents ---------------------- Resources Text Resources carebridge.org pulsar.org quasar.org medibolt.com I3.org ---------------------- Sponsors Rocky Mountain Inst. El Capitan Canyon Medweb MindTel Visual Eyes ---------------------- Data Mapping medibolt.com ---------------------- This webpage last updated by: Matt Carbone on March 11, 2002. Sustainable Settlements Charrette Rethinking Encampments for Refugees and Displaced Populations February 10-14, 2002 El Capitan Canyon, Santa Barbara, California Click here for previous web page --- End of [170] RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [201](https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md) Colophon, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2003); the most closely related, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.