# Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [79]. 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), 2012-10-19 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/meaning-plausible-utopias-3192. Text: document text - 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): Talk note on cheap housing futures and the hexayurt community. - Career works it belongs to: - Plausible Utopias (2012): Talk deck for the Meaning conference: abundance breaks the financial system, because housing is... - First hexayurt built (2003): The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels. (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) - Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments, entrepreneurs as the scarce... (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. - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... - 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) - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: The Future We Deserve (3 here; 19 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 2 undated); Plausible Utopias (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Sheds to sustainability (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Goat Rodeo (2 here; 14 sources in all, earliest dated 2010, 3 undated); Gandhi (3 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Goat Rodeo Index (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2010, 3 undated); The Unplugged (1 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Buttered Side Down (1 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Hexayurt Project (4 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated); Unplugged (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Plausible Utopias; Sheds to sustainability - Importance: core-text score 0.71 (1.00 is the top), number 28 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [725] [Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md): same career work: Plausible Utopias - [823] [Plausible Utopias (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md): same career work: Plausible Utopias - On the same works, just before: [407] [H4D2.eu Final presentations (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/407.md); [401] [Meaning Conf Livestream 7 @meaningconf (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/401.md); [725] [Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) - On the same works, just after: [169] [OHM2013 Program (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md); [93] [Why there’s no money: the imaginary part of financial... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/93.md); [85] [Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.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: Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2012-10-19, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/meaning-plausible-utopias-3192; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [79], https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/meaning-plausible-utopias-3192) A couple of weeks ago, October 1st, I talked at the Meaning Conference. The good Will McInnes. Will invited me to give a talk at a social business sessions meetup in London, and I talked on the Hexayurt Project and Social Capital, and I guess Will wanted to see what I’d do with a broader stage! It was an incredible day. Packed: nine speakers, with several talks which were simply somebody’s core life’s work layed out on the table at full revelation exposure. I had no idea how I was going to handle following nearly last on top of a day like that. All of the talks are online, too! Here are the slides from my talk (pdf.) The video has the slides, it’s really good. My twitter handle is @Leashless. Here are some things I mention in my talk. The Future We Deserve, our massively collaborative futures book project. The Hexayurt Project 750 hexayurts at Burning Man 2012 The big hexayurt domes in practice and big hexayurt domes in theory. The Exponential Function The falling cost of solar panels, equal to grid power by 2020 Small is Profitable was one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2002, about energy economics. Dougald Hine on the social functions of money from the Collapsonomics tour of Ireland series. I also did a talk there. Economists Ronald Coase John Nash of A Beautiful Mind fame Yochai Benkler who wrote The Wealth of Networks which figures out what wealth looks like in the 21st century The Goat Rodeo theory of organizational disfunction, including the infamous Goat Rodeo Index for measuring such problems. Background Sources Buckminster Fuller, environmentalist, humanitarian and the original dome designer Mahatma Gandhi who’s 21st century incarnation might work like this The Unplugged is a short mythic manifesto I wrote about combining Gandhi’s goals, Fuller’s ends. You may well enjoy, and it is short. Resilience Maps (Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps) and my old company, Buttered Side Down which focussed on European state failures W. Edwards Deming, American quality control guru, and his 14 Points of Management (point 8, “drive out fear!”) Valve Softare Gabe Newell Valve’s profits per employee exceed Google and Apple The Valve Employee Handbook The Farm are the folks who asked me about zero waste domes in the first place The Hexayurt Project team (in the order of the story, not alphabetical or in sequence) Edmund Harriss who invented the quad-dome Dylan Toymaker who invented the H13 and other designs Jay Springett, hexayurt activist about town, and counter of hexayurts from the satellite pictures. Lucas Gonzaleze who translates, documents and did the epidemeological analysis of hexayurt growth trends at Burning Man Rasi Masri who helps build hexayurts and does documentation, renderings and visualizations Julie Danger who invented the Camp-Danger hinge, and makes great explanatory videos. (I inexplicably missed Julie on the talk slides!) You! (and who else am I forgetting?) The Future We Deserve, our massively collaborative futures book project. Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief [passage 2](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/meaning-plausible-utopias-3192) at Burning Man Rasi Masri who helps build hexayurts and does documentation, renderings and visualizations Julie Danger who invented the Camp-Danger hinge, and makes great explanatory videos. (I inexplicably missed Julie on the talk slides!) You! (and who else am I forgetting?) The Future We Deserve, our massively collaborative futures book project. Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management. http://hexayurt.com/plan 6 Responses to Meaning: Plausible Utopias Vinay Gupta October 19, 2012 at 5:59 pm Anything else I mention in the talk but forgot to link to? Please put it in the comments and I’ll add it to the list! LucasG October 20, 2012 at 8:11 am The small hexayurts could be a big thing. Appropedia.org/Hexayurt_H2 and appropedia.org/Hexayurt_H4 (looks easy to build! Might be made taller?) They are also harder to count which adds to the fun. 😉 I’d _love_ to see plywood H4, and ferrocement.com hexayurts. So if someone gets to do them, please take pictures and let us all know! Thanks! Pingback: Traveller’s Teacup » Blog Archive » 4th horizon of capitalism & platform economies Pingback: Warren Ellis » Bookmarks for 2012-11-15 Pingback: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Meaning Conference Highlights – A Collaborative Future #lawwe Pingback: The Hexayurt Project – from sheds to sustainability | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution Leave a Reply Cancel reply --- End of [79] Meaning: Plausible Utopias | 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, [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md) OHM2013 Program (2013); the most closely related, [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.