Disaster is well and truly upon us

Our latest series looks at how designers and architects can help manage natural hazards. Dezeen features editor Nat Barker explains why it's time to start Designing for Disaster.This year, as in previous years, the world shook, then burned, then flooded, then did it all again. The February earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria claimed so many souls that authorities stopped counting at 56,000. In September another earthquake in Morocco took at least 2,946 lives, just two days before floodi