Description
Fifty years ago, Project Cybersyn—a unique Latin American experiment—combined technology and worker participation to support fairer, more horizontal, and situated responses. It advocated a radically bottom-up approach to managing the Chilean economy, ensuring that data was legible and accessible for collective decision-making.
Inspired by Cybersyn’s lessons and responding to increasingly centralised data shaped by dominant interests, this presentation introduces an experimental model for "Pluriversal Civic Encounters." In these collaborative design research workshops, community members translate their lived experiences into novel and critical data visualisations through participatory diagrams, collages, and annotations—transforming data towards a situated and pluriversal practice of knowledge generation.
This presentation outlines visual tools that aim to empower communities to diagnose their territories, identify patterns of exclusion or resistance, and deepen dialogue around issues that matter to them. The goal: to develop an experimental practice of data visualisation that leverages the democratic potential of data through accessible, participatory methods.
