Data visualization: C80 and information design to strengthen civic education.

June 2023.- People understanding the data: this is the goal of C80the innovative project created by IMFD student Ricardo Vega, academic of the School of Design UCD. student of the Department of Computer Science PUC. This initiative was born in 2015 with the aim of bringing the Constitution to People who are not experts in the field, using data visualization.

The project is based on data visualizationwhich involves translating information into different types of visual expressions. "It's a super big field as it's mainly used for two things: analyzing data and figuring out what's there, and communicating patterns so people understand them," he says.

C80 is an interdisciplinary work that brings together lawyers, communicators, designers and programmers, who work together to make the Constitution understandable and accessible, making the information available in a clear and attractive way to the public in order to encourage civic participation in the upcoming plebiscite. 

They have a website where different proposals are displayed, such as, "Street Archive"which indexes more than 4,000 images related to the 2019 social uprising; a constitutional timeline from 1970 onwards; a display of historical information, functions, members and reflections on the Constitutional Court, among others.among others.

Now, in the context of a new constituent process that the country is going through, the initiative was re-launched on June 8 in the C1 room of the GAM Center, where Vega pointed out that "the main idea and intention of this project has always been to bring the subject of the Constitution closer to People who are not experts, through data visualization, use of digital tools, infographics, among others".