# "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland 26th, 27th, 28th September 2010 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [366]. 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, 2010-09-12 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM. Text: automatic captions, partly corrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Applies SCIM to household and community resilience. - Career works it belongs to: - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... - Hope for the World (2009): Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief and development aid are one problem, and... (suggested by machine) - Infrastructure for Anarchists (2009): Two-hour talk at the Temporary School of Thought in London: exercises for seeing the invisible grids... (suggested by machine) - The Living City (2009): A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat... (suggested by machine) - The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): 4.3 GB of lectures and documents on state failure and contingency management, released into the public... (suggested by machine) - Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city governments from... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - 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) - Topics: flu / infection / risk (17%); SCIM / Six Ways To Die — layered critical-infrastructure mapping (17%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Through the Looking Glass (2 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps (1 here; 38 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 7 undated); critical infrastructure (1 here; 54 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 7 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Through the Looking Glass - Importance: core-text score 0.24 (1.00 is the top), number 325 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md): Item 250 is the full Ireland, September 2010 Through the Looking Glass talk; item 366 is the workshop announcement video - [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010): Item 366 is the Ireland workshop announcement; item 849 is the talk slides - On the same works, just before: [13] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md); [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md); [76] [Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md) - On the same works, just after: [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010); [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md); [827] [The Private Humanitarian Company (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.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: "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland 26th, 27th, 28th September 2010, video, 2010-09-12, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [366], https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=0s) my name is Vinay Gupta and I'll be coming to ar1 26th 27th and 28th of September 2010 to do a session called through the Looking Glass through the Looking Glass is about large scale risk it's about financial collapses it's [0:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=13s) about State failures it's about resource crisis it's about all the large scale stuff but it's about bringing that down [0:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=22s) to an individual a household in the community level using a tool called simple critical infrastructure maps that [0:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=27s) allows people to analyze where they're robust where they're resilient and where [0:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=31s) they have weaknesses that could be remedied by working together with their neighbors and their friends to share the responsibility and share the load of [0:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=39s) being resilient in the face of these kinds of risks uh I hope you'll be able to come to the talk and uh take care --- End of [366] "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland 26th, 27th, 28th September 2010. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010) (no text here); the most closely related, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.