# The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [89]. 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), 2011-08-06 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636. 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): Release of the SCIM-centred state-failure archive. - Career works it belongs to: - The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): 4.3 GB of lectures and documents on state failure and contingency management, released into the public... - 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) - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (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) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Tweets & captured social feeds (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Arup (3 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Reykjavik (3 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); OODA (2 here; 16 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated); TIDES (3 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); Ireland (3 here; 36 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); SCIM (2 here; 19 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 9 undated); urban resilience (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); OODA loop (1 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 3 undated); Dealing in Security (1 here; 13 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 4 undated); Collapsonomics (1 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 1 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.28 (1.00 is the top), number 270 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [99] [User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md): same career work: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive - [824] [Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md): same career work: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive - On the same works, just before: [144] [The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md); [359] [ZOOM0004 (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md); [360] [ZOOM0003 (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/360.md) - On the same works, just after: [848] The Resilience Dividend (2011); [52] [When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md); [202] [TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.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: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2011-08-06, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [89], https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636) I’ve just released 4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org. You can browse, watch and download individual files there. There is the start of a collaborative “reader’s guide” on Appropedia. You can also download the entire set as a TAR file from Archive.org or try bit Bittorrent version here. At 4.3gb it’s ideal for burning on DVD. Just download the file, decompress (unzip etc. will do it), burn them on to a DVD and pass them out. Such a DVD would be a good starting point for people who want to get oriented to this kind of hard line resilience thinking. Most of the files are videos, and I’ve hotlinked the most important ones below and marked them with a *. The files are all Public Domain, with one exception as noted below. Please distribute the widely, pass them around, and make the tools available to local community organizers who are trying to make a difference in these challenging times. cheapid.guptaoption.com.6aug2011tar.gz – web site archive emergency_shelter__The_Hexayurt_in_Haiti__Summer_2010.pdf – basic overview of a tough hexayurt guptaoption.com.6aug2011.tar.gz – web site archive hexayurt.com.6aug2011.tar.gz – web site archive how_to_buy_food_for_disasters__Reykjavik__2008.pdf – simple, very, very easy food shopping – can be improved! * Modeling_State_Failure_With_SCIM__Greenhouse_Ireland__29Sep2010.m4v (390mb) – hardcore mortality analysis of a failed state scenario Observe_Orient_Decide_Act_OODA_2x2.pdf – Boyd’s OODA loop for organizations On_Designing_Complex_Cooperation_A_Tour_of_The_Gupta_Dimension__Summer2009.mov – organizational theory for non-traditional partnerships, taken from civ/mil cooperation * START_HERE__Dealing_in_Security__Simple_Critical_Infrastructure_Maps__July2010.pdf – speaks for itself. Do start here. This file is CC licensed NON-COMMERCIAL USE, please note that. STAR_TIDES__BIG_OVERVIEW.pdf – appropriate technology and infrastructure theory from STAR-TIDES STAR_TIDES__SMALL_OVERVIEW.pdf – a little more infrastructure theory, from a brochure strategic_complexity_framework_for_dummies.pdf – light relief, but also vital The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011.mp3 (1) The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011__warmup_chat.mp3 (2) a new model of municipal governance which helps decentralize the power of the Mayor. * The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_1of2.m4v (600mb) – general overview of my work, and our position * The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_2of2.m4v (600mb) – second part of the talk, and Q&A The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_slides.pdf – slides TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive.tar – the tar file which contains all these files * The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009.mov (100mb) – US Urban Resilience analysis we did for Arup. Focuses on cold weather grid stability and pharmaceutical supply chain management The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009_slides.pdf – slides The_Reykjavik_Briefing_on_Natural_Disaster__Reykjavik__2008.mov – long range, large scale thinking on natural disasters, including the seeds of what later became SCIM. * Through_the_Looking_Glass__Greenhouse_Ireland__27Sep2010.mp4 (300mb) – how many groups can cooperate to provide essential services in a crisis scenario. introduces the concept of AIAC. Through_the_Looking_Glass__Greenhouse_Ireland__27Sep2010_slides.pdf – slides Time_to_Stop_Pretending__Uncivilisation_Dark_Mountain_Festival__29May2010.mp4 – a little on the global situation Vinay_Gupta_and_Mike_Bennett_Collapsonomics__Uncivilisation_Dark_Mountain_Festival__30May2010.mp3 – a briefing on how pre-existing cultural faultlines can be just as dangerous as geological faultlines vinay.howtolivewiki.com.6aug2011.tar.gz – an archive of this blog, up until yesterday. * why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf – on the limits of collaboration when people are not properly aligned at a psychological level The entire package is many hours of video, containing a plethora of deep models for understanding systems and social resilience, and would probably take a couple of weeks to really get through if you were working on it every day. I will be preparing some simpler [passage 2](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636) the limits of collaboration when people are not properly aligned at a psychological level The entire package is many hours of video, containing a plethora of deep models for understanding systems and social resilience, and would probably take a couple of weeks to really get through if you were working on it every day. I will be preparing some simpler starting point materials in due course. The “Dealing in Security” document, however, is precise, general, readable, informative, comprehensive and short. You can safely start there. There’s a fair bit that could be done to improve this package – it could be presented as an ISO file. For size, videos could be recompressed, and audio quality improved, slides intercut with the footage and so on. The PDFs could be ported into some kind of editable format and so on. Most of all, other material could be added, in the couple of gigs that might save, and we could have a genuinely useful “drop and go” community-level resilience DVD. That’s going to be a project for somebody else, though. I’ve made my content available, I hope that other people will follow suit, and we can all be as well prepared as possible should there be significant disruptions in essentials services in upcoming years. Godspeed. V> --- End of [89] The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times | 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, [848] The Resilience Dividend (2011) (no text here); the most closely related, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md) User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.