On June 2, it was held la Infographic Olympiad 2023, coordinated by the UCM and made up of professors from this university together with the URJC and UNED and whose The venue this year has been the Rey Juan Carlos University. This is a contest in which Bachelor's and Master's degree university students who have designed a scientific infographic as part of some academic work participate.
In this edition, our students of the Double Degree in History + Primary Education Miguel Esteban Galarza, Alicia Lagunar Vázquez, Pablo Frías Cortés and José Miguel Guerrero Torreblanca they have won the Third Prize of Honor of the contest with the presentation of an infographic titled “The Old Cathedral of Salamanca: a polyhedral space”. As the students explain, it is a work from the subject "History of Ancient and Medieval Art", taught by Ángel Pazos López (Doctoral Researcher "Margarita Salas" bound for the FCEDEI of the URJC) who encouraged them to sign up for this Olympics and guided them from their sketching to their delivery.
The process of making the infographic was complex due to the nature of this type of work. As the students explain, despite having a large amount of information related to the Old Cathedral of Salamanca, it was very difficult to synthesize all that information to meet the requirements for making a good infographic: the presentation of a panel in which the information was represented by sufficiently descriptive icons, graphics or photographs.
To get around this difficulty, they finally relied on the idea that medieval cathedrals were somehow a “microcosm”, a polyhedral space in which several different thematic areas work at the same time, even needing each other. For this reason they proposed six areas of study to be developed, spread out in a hexagonal space that will come together in the 3D model of the cathedral, to better locate the different explanations that were described with a graphic or icon. As the students point out, in addition to the guidance of their teacher, they were previously trained by attending two webinars about making infographics, which helped them configure the final model of their work.
From the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we want to give you the Congratulations for this achievement, which we hope will serve to motivate the rest of the students to participate in this type of activities outside the classroom.