#datafication: social credit system

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#datafication

2019, Final Synthesis Design Studio

Communication Design, Politecnico di Milano

Data visualization / Web design / Big data / Visual design

During our final synthesis design studio held by DensityDesign, we started from the controversial theme about big data and the use of AI to develop a project which aim was to present a controversial topic through visualizations.

La Lettura & datafuture?

The first phase's aim was to collect and visualize structured data from official sources. We developed a website and also a visualization for La Lettura of Il Corriere della Sera.

In our research, we found three main actors involved in the topic of big data and algorithms: companies, governments and people. By the end of this phase we arrived at a question: will these three actors be able to work together to build a new world based on data trading?

scs_breathing scores?

We found a possible answer to that question in Social Credit System: in China, government is giving a score to every citizen based on what they do, both online and offline. In this second phase, we mapped the controversial topic using digital methods and we delivered a website which shows the process we followed, all the visualization designed and the data mined.

This website won the Bronze at the Information is Beautiful Award 2019 in the category Politics & Global. We received the award at the London ceremony, on November 2019.

We also won the Gold award in the Students category at the Malofiej International Infographic Awards, on August 2020.

Welcome to Cameraville!

With the third phase, we were asked to present the debate around Social Credit System to engage a broader audience. Welcome to Cameraville! was designed as a gamified experience, through which the user can discover what it means to live in a world in which a number tells you what you can or cannot do.