There is plenty of information in the mediasphere on how you can donate to help the victim’s of the Haitian earthquake, though there is little discussion that I have seen on practical solutions for implementing the financial aid that is pouring in. But then this morning, I noticed the Dangerous Mind’s post on Chicago’s Vinay Gupta’s Hexayurt project.

Cheap, extremely portable, and able to be constructed quickly by a single person, the Hexayurt is a remarkably efficient solution to creating a temporary shelter for disaster areas, refugee situations, construction sites, military installations or festivals.

Vinay developed this for his camp at Burning Man and has been pushing them for the better part of the past decade. We had several plans to interview him for the Viking Youth Power Hour, but never saw that plan to completion though I wish we had. There’s little I enjoy more than seeing an elegant solution to a difficult problem and Vinay’s Hexayurts clearly fit that bill.