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By: An evening with TEDxOrenda… « Patrick's Blog

An evening with TEDxOrenda… « Patrick's Blog — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:14:15 +0000

[...] were five speakers I really appreciated. First of these was Vinay Gupta, who raised some important and challenging questions about the way our society uses its resources [...]

By: The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › Hell of a life – Kanye West – and new year’s thoughts

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:06:10 +0000

[...] get one eye off poverty and the environment. I’ve spread my bets all over the “low end” of global scenarios, stuff which makes government planners worry. But its made mincemeat of [...]

By: The Hexayurt – From An Invention To A Reality « Sarvodaya Media Blog

The Hexayurt – From An Invention To A Reality « Sarvodaya Media Blog — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:39:27 +0000

[...] knowledge with Sarvodaya, to build a new kind of tent: the Hexayurt. The Hexayurt was invented by Vinay Gupta and is intended to provide durable shelter to millions with the use of the people’s local [...]

By: Dr. Lovestrange or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peak Oil « ASPO Ireland

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:41:21 +0000

[...] a month has passed since Vinay Gupta and Dougald Hine‘s visit to our shores to take a look at the state of the country and offer [...]

By: Noah Raford » Three Innovations in Crowd Sourced Scenario Planning, Part 1

Noah Raford » Three Innovations in Crowd Sourced Scenario Planning, Part 1 — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:20:49 +0000

[...] such as Andrew Curry of the Futures Company, Emile Hooge of Nova7, Indy Johar of 00:/research, Vinay Gupta and [...]

By: Crowd-sourced books, a passing fad? « Bjelkeman's travel notes

Crowd-sourced books, a passing fad? « Bjelkeman's travel notes — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:45:18 +0000

[...] first one I got prompted to contribute to is The Future We Deserve, @theFWD, which is organised by Vinay Gupta, @leashless. TheFWD essays are supposed to be about the future and about 500 words long, with a [...]

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:38:44 +0000

I saw this recently from a link on Warren Ellis’ blog.
http://www.d-shape.com/d_shape_presentation.pdf

I think something like this could be delivered into areas like Haiti or New Orleans with a preset design that could build more than temporary shelters.

The tech is obviously in its infancy, but I believe the potential to be nearly limitless. Armed with enough of these we could rebuild (or build for the first time) communities quickly.

By: JRDegan

JRDegan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:58:13 +0000

I like the idea. Couple of questions:
- Have you made metric versions of the plans? Inches and feet are Greek to them.
- Have you translated the instructions into French?
- Have you investigated what sized plywood sheets are typical in that part of the world (metric) and adapted the plans accordingly?
- I have not read through the plans yet, but have you thought about using a “stitch and glue” method for assembling these? This is used in assembling small boats and might be well adapted to Haiti (think of your yurt as an upside down boat!). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stitch_and_glue

By: Steve Sekhon

Steve Sekhon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:29:01 +0000

Vinay,

Thank you so much for all the great work. What a whirlwind of activity and productivity you are! I first came upon your work while preparing to build a hexayurt at Burningman last year (it worked great!)

I just wanted to recognize you and publicly exclaim kudos. Do you still go to BM?

Cheers,

By: Akvo blog » Blog Archive » To coincide with today’s open source publication of Akvo’s video strategy, Vinay Gupta argues that “the collision of the internet and the poor is clearly a major turning point in human history, in w

Thu, 28 May 2009 16:45:29 +0000

[...] place – our role, and how it relates to others – is the most important thing we can do right now. Vinay Gupta is an advisor to Akvo and has been a key figure in the development of the Akvo video process. You [...]