Manuela Garretón
Information Visualization
Manuela is a professor at the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and was a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the same university. Her research interests include visualization in the context of data journalism, public policy, urbanism, neuroscience and subjective wellbeing.
Manuela received a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University. She has worked on a variety of data visualization projects for different contexts, from data journalism to interactive installations. She is currently part of the data visualization applied research lab at the UC School of Design. She is also part of the interdisciplinary research and creation platform - Sociedad Diseño y Tecnología (SDT), which observes the social implications of design and technologies in contemporary society.