June 2023.- People understanding data: this is the objective of C80, the innovative project created by IMFD student Ricardo Vega, academic at the UC School of Design, doctoral student at the PUC Department of Computer Science. This initiative was born in 2015 with the aim of bringing the Constitution closer to non-experts in the field, using data visualization.

The project is founded on data visualization, which implies translating information into different types of visual expressions. “It’s a super big field in that it’s used primarily 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 for the public to thus encourage civic participation in the next plebiscite.

They have a website where different proposals are displayed, such as “Archivo Calle”,, which indexes more than 4,000 images referring to the social revolt of 2019; a constitutional timeline spanning from 1970 onwards; a visualization of historical information, functions, members and reflections on the Constitutional Court, among others.

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