# Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The Transitional Living Worksh815 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [247]. 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: video, 2020-11-03 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0. Text: automatic captions, mostly corrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Built hexayurt village: shelter at settlement scale. - Career works it belongs to: - Six Ways To Die workshops (2009): Week-long design workshops built on Six Ways To Die: at Formens Hus in Sweden with the Swedish Civil... - First hexayurt built (2003): The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels. (suggested by machine) - Free science and engineering in the global public interest (2009): Talk deck: poverty causes a quarter to a half of 60 million deaths a year, and open source hardware gets... (suggested by machine) - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect. (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: - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (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) - 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) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: fab / yes / laser (22%); culture / history / fiction (11%); Burning Man shelter building (11%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: hexayurt village (3 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Sphere standards (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Tell Me Who You Are (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 2 undated); refugee camp (1 here; 36 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); too hot (1 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 6 undated); skills (1 here; 67 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); jobs (1 here; 85 sources in all, earliest dated 2003, 4 undated); standards (1 here; 87 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.34 (1.00 is the top), number 202 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [727] [Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md): close in content (cosine 0.87) - [724] [Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md): close in content (cosine 0.86) - On the same works, just before: [770] [Grounded Gabbin' with Vinay Gupta (on the meta-crisis) (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md); [683] [CommunityZ Chest - Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, In... (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md); [248] [Vinay Gupta Thought Menu on Enlightenment (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md) - On the same works, just after: [774] [All Power To The Imagination #10 | with special guest... (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/774.md); [741] [Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, and the Hexayurt |... (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/741.md); [773] [Vinay Gupta — Incentive-based epistemology | Ideamarket... (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.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: Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The Transitional Living Worksh815, video, 2020-11-03, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [247], https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=0s) so this is a hexayurt village that we built you can see you've all this funky additions dormers satellite dish we've got these small hex ears there are five of them each one is about seven square meters so uh by sphere standards they would be good for two people i'm gonna come inside and give you some sense of scale it's a little hard to get a sense but you can see it's large enough for two people to sleep pretty comfortably one person can stand inside easily maybe two only about six of these in one morning this one has interior interior dividers this is the pile of raw materials see this stuff is 1.6 by 1.2 meters double wall cardboard and they're setting up the banquet tables here are some of the folks who helped build everybody's tired we built a bunch of stuff today and this is another hexayurt this is the same size as the other ones i was showing you do you want to say hello i'm going to upload this on the internet oh hello hello nice to meet you tell me who you are i'm roller uh-huh and what do you do yeah i'm working with the sustainable issues uh in hello force oh yeah i've been very glad of your help and you want to introduce yourself i'm going to upload this on the internet in a minute yes my name is lawrence visigrin and i'm the general manager of pharmacies and i'm very pleased to have been a gupta here for this workshop and exercise and this is really start of very exciting journey we will make continuing of the whole year and actually hopefully over a few years i hope so too it's been really a ton of fun being here and i've got to say it's a spectacular facility it is i'm so impressed by the way that the town you know did this whole process of you know choosing to get oriented to the future in a really disciplined way rather than just kind of winking out when the industry went very unusual i think it's really kind of globally inspirational um which we notice when we have visitors here from all over the world they all get very inspired when they listen actually not only listen to the story because they can also look around and see everything that has happened do you want to summarize it briefly just give people an idea what we're talking about uh okay very briefly um [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=150s) it's about when the steel industry went down in the world in the late 1980s and this municipality is based on steel industry so over a short period of time 1000 people lost their jobs and the population at the time was about ten thousand then they started a very radical and unusual uh process of transformation um first question they raised was what will the future society be like after digging into that question for about a year they summed up that the future society will be a c society standing for culture creativity communication competence and okay it's not a c but knowledge and then looking at the infrastructure of heliforce they could easily see that we don't have that much supporting those seas in our infrastructure so the vision became to to trade that infrastructure to that support those seas and you can say education became the red thread whatever they will do and i make this extremely short now but first they started with the kids and they start with culture making subjects like drama music dance creative art and drama music dance creative art drama wasn't it drama yes did not say that yeah okay mandatory they have to spend working with each field for one year and also to meet an audience reason for that that they believe that culture in itself open opens up for other knowledge plus going through working through a creative process will make you grow as an individual you will find powers within you that you're not aware of before etc so that's the main reason for that and then they started in different processes you can say first technique education to support the industry that we still have here in steel and love areas university program i believe the first in the world actually in culinary art there is of course a longer story behind that why etc it's not just a coincidence [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=300s) it's all about human beings and so happened that there was a person running and in here which in the 80s was one of the highest top-ranked restaurant and hotels in sweden anyway and then in the process of also changing housing areas in the municipality they sort of start to understand that form and design is also something very deep and important for human beings so they said also design is the field we should get into that's uh that was the starting point this is the whole performance the pharmacist is large i mean this area back here yeah there are offices there's a library there's like a design all you have the foundation program in industrial design a unique program for sweden and basically all students going through that program also do get into design universities in sweden and elsewhere which is quite unique in itself well it's been a fantastic place to work i mean you know we've had students here from what two university courses universities but they can't well all over the world and it's not the first time we're done but this is the first time in september we'll have a lot more schools coming here and it's the first time we do it in such a scope and also together with authorities and industry and that as a meeting place i would say it's quite unique yeah i would agree with you i mean certainly in my time trying to get this stuff done you know the problem has always been because it's kind of interdisciplinary yeah you know who hosts and who's interested in doing the development work and you know this project has really been kind of a godsend because it stepped right in and said you know we're interested in the whole problem yeah we're interested in development we have the resources we have the contacts with government yeah we have the contacts of the industry and you know we just we just showed up and did stuff yeah and as you said uh it's quite complex doing a thing like this so even though there probably are ones talking about it they don't have the time or they don't really want to do it when they realize how much work it is but this is very important for us and we will continue to do projects like this where we can see projects which we believe can [7:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=450s) uh improve society and change it in different ways this is one way of course but i'm very glad to be here to help thank you very much thank you i'm going to go outside and show everybody the big hexayurt now some people want to come out with me and talk about the big hexayurt i need somebody to show scale come on give me a volunteer somebody come no come on thank you [Music] so tell me your name what tell me your name i'm sebastian sebastian we're going to go out here do you want to come too i'm going to make another little film very small nice fire so this is what i'm going to put online i've shown all the buildings that we built earlier and all of this oh great so where are you from oh i'm from germany germany [Applause] yes and which one of the courses are you with are you the industrial designer i'm coming from attending the industrial design course spaces of conflict and we built this very nice hexagon now space is a conflict is actually an industrial design course i think so yeah oh that's interesting of course i didn't realize that and that's running out of contract yes oh okay that explains a thing or two when you come in they put a lock on the door ah they locked the door yeah so this is the hexayurt we made earlier on let's see if we can it's a little hard to see because the light is dim in here trust it it's always nice to have somebody inside together sansa scale thank you for coming [Applause] so how long did it take us to build this two hours baby it really worked pretty well and kind of we did we did the full folding folding roof construction which i'll try and post some videos of later on hello yeah it was good having so many folks helping otherwise you know it's not the kind of thing you can do with two people yet we need more skills to do that cool [Applause] all right can you see if johanna's around see if you can get him to come out i'd love to talk to [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=600s) him somewhere before i turn this off thank you i'm gonna put it up on youtube [Applause] yeah i don't think i've cut this yet but i'll definitely try and get some of the footage of the stuff going on it's quite spectacular there's just about enough light yeah okay i can still very close to the fireplace yeah do you want to bring one inside can you do that without getting burned i don't think they're too hot yet well as long as you don't burn your hand we should be fine inside ah let's not try that yeah i suspect it's pretty good because rebord is already firing yes you actually smell how reborn smells in here yeah it's impossible to do outside but once you get here because it's a bit of a sweet smell isn't it i wonder how much of that's the glue from the hexayurt from the tape yeah yeah oh that works great wow yeah this works the camera works very very hard to get usable images oh yeah so it cuts the frame rate and it over amplifies but it always works yeah i would like tell us tell us all about how you came to be doing this okay how it came to about this project actually started before i was working here at former cities [12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=750s) the former city people they had run a project about recreational housing and you know in sweden you can build a freaky boat which came in nine square meters without building permission and that is like the ultimate recreational house except a project about that and it went quite well it had some prizes in new york furniture fair and it did together with parsons in school and said at the end and then they basically i think they said i think okay what do you do next here uh well uh there are other people then you know swedes that need to be create recreational living that could use some you know good design architecture and so this basically started a project and that was when i committed to the picture that they had this project we're gonna do emergency housing and they had some loose connections with rescue services agency in sweden some paper province contact it's a paper industry and that's how i get into it and i started to meeting with the swedish rescue services agency and it turned out they are also developing new transitional filters and that we could have a joint project here and so the rescue services agency they went quite interested and then we saw we can really make something great out of this project as we thought hopefully and we had the minister of defense coming here and the project i saw it had a much greater potential and a much greater need than i first thought it would and then i met a lot of people through the internet like vinay for example hello yeah um and this is how we work in this phase one of the projects we are now developing uh in on parallel tracks a few transitional housing solutions and and that also includes like all those known food items like you know cooking supplies eating yeah all that kind of stuff and it's um what should i say it's a project that for the first phase how we do it since we have very little money and we are non-profit we do it a lot in cooperation with academic institutions we have a great academic network and so today we have charmers and conspect here we built the hexayurts to you know get started and thinking and then these we also have some thesis workers that are gonna do you know good classifications those you know the science they're great with there's a good classification techniques out there they're basically gonna look at the styling for it and then next year we're gonna have uh one much bigger conference than this we're actually going to try to build a refugee [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=900s) camp in you know places like the hexagon it's going to be for one week and then we're going to have it's about 10 academic institutions from all over the world we've got guys from taipei from peru and they have the peru guys they have already done a lot on you know earthquake um housing so we're looking forward to have them here with us the parsons from new york and yeah from france again so we have different people and this will be here i mean first to get them started together thinking we get all the clever people in this business here and to brief them and give instructions and also it will be a huge test form because then we will actually we had a small tester on the day building the hexayurts and i think it you know went almost better than expected you know they learned very very quickly yeah possibly in one and a half hour we had five years and with very very little extra instructions and very little knowledge put into it it was very easy for them to have that so we will do something similar but you know for you a nice material like the rebord oh yeah yeah and but then we will actually have the people leaving the church for this whole conference and if you think about it if you have about 60 to 100 students we don't know yet how many we can afford bringing here because we pay all their expenses and there would be a great you know they can be about three four people living in a space like this oh yeah oh yeah if you talk about you know cultural compatibility i can't pronounce the word combat you know being available with the culture yeah we have lots of culture here it's going to test it of course it will be you know more educated than average and everything but it's a good test run before we're going into making i mean real test runs which we will do in cooperation with the swedish rescue services agency so yeah that's basically about the project yeah fantastic well thank you so much it's been great having the opportunity to come here yeah thank you and actually build a bunch of stuff with a bunch of people and we're having building was really good because we are dealing with quite some very good and theoretical you know people even if they are designers and this would be very good exercise to actually do something here for a while yeah and you'll split yeah and i hope to see you back in september oh i'll be back now that we felt hexayurts here you're never getting rid of me you know you guys once you have invited your wife man yeah it's really fun i loved it it was you know snowing out here it's the first time i've seen a hexayurt covered in snow before yeah yeah yeah in america it's all been this desert stuff [17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=1050s) i'm really pleased with the way the little hexayurt village came out as well it's such a big space it really is like a world institute for this kind of stuff there we go there's the small and the people here they also drink birch drinks did you tell them yeah yeah it's pretty funny pretty funny fermented you know the opportunities of growing champagne in sweden you know or would you call it sparkling wine whatever they're pretty limited we haven't had enough of the greenhouse effect yet so so it's uh what we do is we do birch sparkling wine yeah i can make some pr for that yeah yeah but i gotta say it's actually pretty tasty yeah i was surprised i really thought he was joking like yeah we are not apparently we are yeah can you go over by this one i want to get a sense of scale for it yeah okay yeah so it's about your head height yeah and it's let's see the boards are 160 by 120 centimetres actually works pretty well the proportions are pretty nice it could be a bit higher it wouldn't hurt if it's a little higher can you go inside and give people a sense yeah yeah yeah would you see anything yeah we'll we'll see you have a flashlight it's no it's it's just amazingly good at all like yeah there we are it gives a sense and did you see that you have already started to get some you know decorations talking about oh yeah the art on the inside i don't think that's going to show up that is pretty dark for you can we see no we're not going to see it unfortunately well it's there and it's cool all right oh splendid i'm going to go down and talk to those guys then i'm going to put this online thank you so much looking forward to seeing myself on the internet yeah well you're very fast internet access here so it takes like two minutes to upload yeah it takes less time to upload than it takes to shoot i love that satellite dish yes it would be nice music i saw they've got the amplifiers out there sitting on the big slate thing over there yeah [Applause] hexayurt village all right i'm gonna go upload this i'm gonna have a sound check this one splendid huh i love this building too [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8OwL2KE_0&t=1200s) yeah we've really had a great time here very very international group as well i have a censor upstairs i'm going around the corner well guys um sorry that was such a long video but that's a tour and that's the context and that's what we did take care --- End of [247] Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The Transitional Living Worksh815. 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