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NeoNurture featured in Metropolis magazine

Mon 14 Nov 2011
Metropolis Magazine
"These days it seems as though you can hardly call yourself a designer if you haven’t brought smiles to the faces of children in sub-Saharan Africa or changed the lives of slum dwellers in Latin America."

"Of course, having your heart in the right place is no guarantee of success. There have been reasons for optimism, like the Quinta Monroy housing project in Chile—low-cost, expandable residences developed with the families who live in them. But there have also been some spectacular failures. "

"These mixed results have tempered the first flush of enthusiasm, and the design community is finally asking hard questions about its urge to do good. The upshot from that debate is the same one we hope you’ll take away from the following infographic, which maps the relative success of 11 key projects: realizing a great social-design idea is a long, arduous process, with some necessary lessons in humility along the way. Saving the world may still be a distant dream, but at least we seem to be learning."

- Avinash Rajagopal, Social Design | Easier Said Than Done, Metropolis Magazine, 14Apr2011

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