Disaster Design: An Introduction

Thailand is facing 'national disaster' crisis. One may raise a question what is national disaster? National disaster is when a nation is facing natural disaster and does not know how to deal with it. It turns to be disaster at the national level. Where is the cause of this crisis? It may be caused by 'disaster design', irresponsible design by professional and silent designers. Today, we are experiencing the increasing number of disaster designs around the world, i.e. design for your own sake, design for users-unfriendly, design for social depression and design for zero-sum green. Let's use Thailand as a case study to rethink about how to revitalise the country after the flood crisis. The local government is launching a hefty budget to redesign Thailand. However, there are no promising initiatives suggested so far. This is a symptom of disaster design.