Hexayurts for Haiti
by Vinay Gupta • March 24, 2010 • 1 Comment
Click to Play Donate to Science for Humanity‘s hexayurt fund here. Thanks to Don’t Panic for the film!
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The Smart Money – invest in changing how we approach disaster
by Vinay Gupta • February 14, 2010 • 1 Comment
TL;DR we’re raising money to do the science required to put hexayurts on the ground in Haiti. you can help by giving Science for Humanity the cash for the research drive. click here ======= THE DETAILS ======= If you prefer, a Spanish translation from Lucas Gonzalez The Hexayurt Project is not a charity. It is [...]
Read more →Crisis Camp London progress reports Feb 13 2010
by Vinay Gupta • February 13, 2010 • 0 Comments
Click to Play http://crisiscamp.org http://crisiscampldn.org
Read more →#CrisisCampLDN Team Leads meeting Noon Feb 13 2010
by Vinay Gupta • February 13, 2010 • 0 Comments
http://crisiscamp.org http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London Team lead meeting, with briefing on the mapping task and google analytics task.
Read more →Healing Haiti – slides from today’s talk in Leeds
by Vinay Gupta • February 9, 2010 • 0 Comments
Mainly a discussion of how broad network access allows remote groups to help in disasters, and how we must think about helping out during disasters in poor-but-networked countries in totally new ways. Healing Haiti Or you can get the Healing Haiti slides as a PDF if you prefer.
Read more →The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description
by Vinay Gupta • February 8, 2010 • 1 Comment
This document outlines the basic elements of the Hexayurt Shelter in general, and one specific configuration suitable for use in Haiti. It’s 17 pages, and covers a lot of the hurricane resistance features that we envisage using in Haiti this year. The Hexayurt in Haiti Or get the PDF version of the Hexayurt in Haiti. [...]
Read more →SCIM: Individual Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly
by Vinay Gupta • February 2, 2010 • 0 Comments
Buttered Side Down’s Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly! (iplayer link, Click, 31st of January 2010, 11m05s) We just did a little revision of the document, tidied up a few bits. You can see the full document here.
Read more →What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending? (new video)
by Vinay Gupta • January 31, 2010 • 0 Comments
@dougald and I (@leashless) discuss What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?, which looks at the Dark Mountain Project and the Hexayurt Project in the same glance, and does some thinking about the future of the village in the process.
Read more →#ccpeople: Using Twitter to visualize the global Crisis Camp
by Vinay Gupta • January 30, 2010 • 0 Comments
Hi everybody! #ccpeople is a project to visualize the global crisis camp. Here’s how it works. At each Crisis Camp, take pictures and upload them to Twitter using TwitPic or something similar. Give each tweet the following format: URL – First name @twitter_id “task at crisis camp” #ccpeople #cchaiti #location_tag Here’s an example: http://twitpic.com/10h7z5 – [...]
Read more →Crisis Camp London Saturday Jan 30th PM Team Leaders reports
by Vinay Gupta • January 30, 2010 • 0 Comments
Click to Play Crisis Camp London
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