"Pessimism plays a crucial part in design"
Two recent disaster documentaries highlight the need for designers and architects to open the door to pessimism, writes emergency planner Lucy Easthope. More about "Pessimism plays a crucial part in design"
Lucy Easthope is a professor at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She is the author of When the Dust Settles: Searching for Hope After Disaster (2023) and Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis (2025). She presented the BBC Radio 4 series At Your Own Peril, about the history of risk.
Two recent disaster documentaries highlight the need for designers and architects to open the door to pessimism, writes emergency planner Lucy Easthope. More about "Pessimism plays a crucial part in design"