# STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [68]. 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), 2007-09-22 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/star-tides-299. 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): Records his role testing life-support kit for STAR-TIDES. - Career works it belongs to: - Expedient Infrastructure for Transient Populations (EITP) (2007): The 2007 program on shelter and infrastructure for 100,000 to 1,000,000 displaced people, between civilian... - STAR-TIDES (2007): Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting populations under stress. - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University (2008): Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a seven-point outline and the reading list behind... (suggested by machine) - Defense Horizons 70 (2009): Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting stressed populations with distributed talent. (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. - Topics: STAR–TIDES / Starfish — distributed humanitarian knowledge networks (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: EITP (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); distributed infrastructure (1 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); STAR-TIDES (1 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); TIDES (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); Appropedia (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): EITP - Importance: core-text score 0.19 (1.00 is the top), number 373 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md): same career work: STAR-TIDES - [335] [STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md): same career work: STAR-TIDES - On the same works, just before: [182] [About (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md); [829] [Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) - On the same works, just after: [71] [TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md); [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md); [833] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.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: STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2007-09-22, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/star-tides-299; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [68], https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/star-tides-299) Project STAR-TIDES is the new form of EITP, which is the .gov, .mil, big .org etc. autonomous building / distributed infrastructure / disaster response effort. They’re also up on Appropedia. I’m currently kind of the jack of all trades / focus manager for this project – keep the thing pointed at the problems, organize the purchasing of systems to test, generally make sure the ground gets covered and the goals get met in terms of working on the technology. It’s an interesting environment. --- End of [68] STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); the most closely related, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.