# The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [96]. 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), 2009-02-19 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-collapsonomics-practice-1295. 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): Adds economic collapse to the threat model the plan addresses. - Career works it belongs to: - Institute for Collapsonomics (2009): Co-founded a London group studying economies and states at the edge of collapse, formed after the 2008 crash. - The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other... (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) - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (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: - black elephant: The black elephant term, from its naming to a Singapore lecture series. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (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: Rural poverty & development infrastructure (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Collapsonomics (1 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 1 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.24 (1.00 is the top), number 316 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [54] [Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md): same career work: Institute for Collapsonomics - [770] [Grounded Gabbin' with Vinay Gupta (on the meta-crisis) (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md): same career work: Institute for Collapsonomics - On the same works, just before: [831] [Leashless (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md); [95] [Talk outline for Jan 7th in London – Infrastructure for... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md); [94] [Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion lecture... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/94.md) - On the same works, just after: [64] [Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md); [226] [Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md); [54] [Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.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 Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2009-02-19, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-collapsonomics-practice-1295; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [96], https://guptaoption.com/texts/96.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-collapsonomics-practice-1295) Usually I don’t get out of bed for anything less than 1% mortality rates. Harsh as that might sound, there are enough 1% problems to be working on that I do not usually focus on less lethal stuff. However, over the past month or so in London I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a valid case to be made for working on economic collapse scenarios as part of the global humanitarian platform. It is not as serious as the national security stuff or the ever-more-vital global poverty work, but it’s pressing and threatening enough that I now need to start doing a little thinking on how to mitigate the consequences of the cash economy imploding. The general mantle for this work is “collapsonomics” – the economics of collapse and avoiding collapse. --- End of [96] The Collapsonomics Practice | 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, [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md) Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009); the most closely related, [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md) Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.