Centuries of beekeeping restricted the honeybees’ role to a producer of raw material, such as honey or wax, which is then harvested and processed, resulting in all artistic value being added by humans. In this project, we regard honeybees (Apis mellifera) as co-creators and explore the joint creations of our two species. During our first season, we scoped the co-creative space over the course of four months. We present image material of sculptures that exceed bees’ natural building behavior and contribute preliminary insights on artifacts originating from human-bee co-creation. We reflect on how human-introduced wax shapes made the bees deviate from their regular comb forms and discuss future paths of multi-species co-creation, temporality, material as well as ethical aspects. Our preliminary insights raise questions to be developed in discussions with the TEI community and answered in future work during the upcoming bee seasons.

Topological materials, characterized by their symmetry-protected electronic properties, offer transformative opportunities to integrate solid-state topology and catalysis. When coupled with chirality, novel classes of chiral material systems emerge, including topological chiral materials and magnetic chiral materials, distinguished by their unique chiral-related phenomena. Investigating the role of structural and electronic chirality on chiral catalytic processes holds significant promise for designing advanced chiral catalysts. This review provides a comprehensive overview of intrinsic chiral materials with chiral space groups, accompanied by an in-depth analysis of their electronic chirality, including chiral spin angular momentum, chiral orbital angular momentum, chiral charge density waves, and chiral Weyl points. Moreover, we discuss various tuning knobs that induce chiral responses in topological materials. By offering fundamental insights into the interplay between chiral quantum phenomena and chiral catalytic efficiency, this review bridges chemistry and physics, offering strategies to optimize emerging chiral catalytic systems, such as spin-dependent catalysis and asymmetric synthesis.

We present efficient algorithms for computing isogenies between hyperelliptic curves, leveraging higher genus curves to enhance cryptographic protocols in the post-quantum context. Our algorithms reduce the computational complexity of isogeny computations from O(g4) to O(g3) operations for genus 2 curves, achieving significant efficiency gains over traditional elliptic curve methods. Detailed pseudocode and comprehensive complexity analyses demonstrate these improvements both theoretically and empirically. Additionally, we provide a thorough security analysis, including proofs of resistance to quantum attacks such as Shor's and Grover's algorithms. Our findings establish hyperelliptic isogeny-based cryptography as a promising candidate for secure and efficient post-quantum cryptographic systems.

Enterprises pursuing AI-driven transformation face a critical tradeoff: centralized consistency vs. decentralized scalability. The "Data Platform Unification Paradox" captures this dilemma. Building on our prior NLPI 2025 paper, this extended version integrates technical depth, mathematical models, and concrete architectures, especially for integrating Data Mesh with Quantum Databases and LLM Agents. A federated architecture is proposed using graph-theoretic models and entropy-based data valuation. We introduce a formal structure to evaluate platform complexity and propose intelligent agent-based governance models to operationalize data sharing across domains. This work aims to move beyond conceptual frameworks by proposing actionable blueprints for next-generation, intelligent data ecosystems.

Abstract Controlling directional radiation with minimal loss and fabrication effort through scalable methods is essential for integrating metasurfaces into photonic devices. Existing strategies enable tuning radiation properties by altering optical parameters of subwavelength dielectric gratings. Herein, a simple method is demonstrated to control the radiation direction of perovskite quantum dot (QD) metasurfaces through the addition of thin gold layers. This approach utilizes hybrid plasmonic modes and defect-free, template-assisted self-assembly techniques for low-loss, large-area production. This colloidal method allows precise control over nanostructure formation, ensuring reproducibility and enhanced optical properties. A 4.6-fold enhancement of the radiation toward the substrate and a 4.4-fold enhancement toward the cover region is achieved by evaporating a thin gold film with an optimal periodicity of 500 nm. Notably, the insertion of a metal layer allows the cover mode to exhibit enhancements that exceed typical expectations for plasmonic metasurfaces. This design is supported by plasmonic lattice theory and validated by electromagnetic modeling, allowing the gamma point to be customized to enhance emission in specific directions and media directly. This rational design strategy enhances the functionality of plasmonic perovskite-based metasurfaces for photonic on-chip applications, including nonlinear light-emitting devices and directional light sources.

The axion is a hypothetical fundamental particle that is conjectured to correspond to the coherent oscillation of the \($\theta$\) field in quantum chromodynamics1,2. Its existence would solve multiple fundamental questions, including the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and dark matter, but the axion has never been detected. Electrodynamics of condensed-matter systems can also give rise to a similar \($\theta$\), so far studied as a static, quantized value to characterize the topology of materials3--5. Coherent oscillation of \($\theta$\) in condensed matter has been proposed to lead to physics directly analogous to the high-energy axion particle---the dynamical axion quasiparticle (DAQ)6--23. Here we report the observation of the DAQ in MnBi2Te4. By combining a two-dimensional electronic device with ultrafast pump--probe optics, we observe a coherent oscillation of \($\theta$\) at about 44thinspacegigahertz, which is uniquely induced by its out-of-phase antiferromagnetic magnon. This represents direct evidence for the presence of the DAQ, which in two-dimensional MnBi2Te4 is found to arise from the magnon-induced coherent modulation of the Berry curvature. The DAQ also has implications in light--matter interaction and coherent antiferromagnetic spintronics24, as it might lead to axion polaritons and electric control of ultrafast spin polarization6,15--20. Finally, the DAQ could be used to detect axion particles21--23. We estimate the detection frequency range and sensitivity in the millielectronvolt regime, which has so far been poorly explored.

Abstract An ultra-sensitive nanoscale magnetism sensing of van der Waals layered CrSBr is demonstrated by employing optical whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonances in a self-rolled-up microcavity. CrSBr nanoflakes with and without intercalation are probed by monitoring the WGM resonant modes shift as a function of magnetic field intensity and temperature, revealing the presence of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) order. The minimum detectable amount of CrSBr nanoflakes reaches the femtogram scale, and the detection limit is as low as 1.25 ? 10?16 emu. This study demonstrates a promising application of WGM microcavities for highly sensitive magnetism detection with reduced system complexity, establishing a novel bridge between materials? optical and magnetic properties.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing conversational recommender systems (CRS) by effectively indexing item content, understanding complex conversational contexts, and generating relevant item titles. However, the autoregressive nature of LLMs, which outputs item titles as a long sequence of subtokens, hinders the ability to efficiently obtain and control recommendations across the entire item set. This challenge in calculating probabilities over all items limits LLMs' potential, such as (1) limiting control over recommendation popularities and (2) preventing the synergy of marrying LLMs and traditional recommender systems (RecSys).To address this challenge, we propose the Reindex-Then-Adapt (RTA) framework. It consists of two steps: (1) Reindex: a lightweight network learns to condense multi-token item titles into single tokens within the LLM and distills LLM-generated recommendations as ranked lists. This bypasses the autoregressive nature of LLMs while trying to preserve their CRS abilities; (2) Adapt: LLMs after reindexing enable efficient adjustment of probability distributions over single-token titles, further enhanced through RecSys integration. RTA bridges the strengths of LLMs and RecSys, enabling understanding of complex queries as LLMs do, while efficiently controlling recommended item distributions as in traditional RecSys. We show the effectiveness of our RTA over base LLMs across three CRS datasets with negligible additional parameters.

This paper discusses the claim that Large Language Models (LLMs) are the best linguistic theory we currently have. It discusses claims that LLMs are wrong linguistic theories and concludes that they are not linguistic theories at all. It is pointed out that Chomsky’s claims about innateness, about transformations as underlying mechanisms of the language faculty and about plausible representations of linguistic knowledge have been known to be flawed for quite some time by now and that we would not have needed LLMs for this. Chomsky’s theories are not refuted by LLMs in their current form since LLMs are different in many aspects from human brains. However, the tremendous success of LLMs in terms of applications makes it more plausible to linguists and laymen that the innateness claims are wrong. It is argued that the use of LLMs is probably limited when it comes to typological work and cross-linguistic generalizations. These require work in theoretical linguistics.

Religionskulturen nehmen zunehmend Designformate von Digital Religion an. Dabei zeigt sich als religionspädagogisch nahezu unerforscht die didaktisch reflektierte User Experience und das Design von digitalen Lehr- und Lernszenarien. AP6 geht aus der Perspektive der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von Human--Computer Interaction und Ev. Religionspädagogik davon aus, dass Religionen und mit ihnen Glaubenspraxen am gesellschaftlichen Wandel zu einer Kultur der Digitalität teilhaben. Es wird auf vorangehende Studien aufgebaut, die zeigen, dass die Erwartung von Lehrpersonen, guten Unterricht mit digitalen Medien gestalten zu können, von positiven Vorerfahrungen mit diesen abhängt. Das Projekt greift hierfür exemplarisch die innerhalb von digitalen Kommunikationen verbreitete religiöse Urgeste des Segens und Segnens auf. In einem iterativen Prozess entstanden interaktive Exponate, sogenannte Blessing Machines. Sie wurden entlang psychologischer Bedürfnisse mit dem Ziel gestaltet, für Schüler:innen und ihre Lehrpersonen religionserschließende Erfahrungen mit digitalem Lernen zu ermöglichen. 200 Personen testeten die dreizehn Blessing Machines (Schulklasse, Konfirmandengruppen) in the wild. Religionslehrpersonen wurden hierbei von der „Logistik`` des Einsatzes digitaler Medien im Unterricht entlastet. Der außerschulische Lernort erfüllte die wichtige Funktion, Schüler:innen und Lehrpersonen gelingende Erfahrungen mit Digital Religion zu ermöglichen. Die Gestaltung der Blessing Machines hat sich als wirksam herausgestellt, besonders Aspekte von Autonomie, Stimulation, Verbundenheit, Gemeinschaft und Provokation wurden positiv hervorgehoben.

We present 'Resound', a Research through Design inquiry into alternative techno-spiritual practices of a UK Buddhist community, informed by a first-person and participatory approach with the members. In this pictorial we portray a moment of reflection as we consolidate our design work towards deployment with the community. We introduce the Resound Sphere, a materialisation of our learning and speculations to date, designed as a research product to empirically explore alternatives for how tangible interaction could mediate religious/spiritual practices. We contribute with the framing of a design space, the presentation of our design approach and artefact response to this design space.

Background High emotional arousal (EA) is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). While virtual reality (VR) has shown promise in treating emotion-based disorders, research on VR applications for BPD remains limited, especially in adolescence. This study aimed to validate a novel VR-based aVeRsive tension paradigm for assessing EA in adolescents and young adults with BPD symptoms. Methods In a multimodal study, we investigated the validity of aVeRsive tension: We surveyed 62 patients with BPD symptoms and 62 healthy controls (HC) aged 13–25 years who completed two VR sessions (stress/control condition). Each session included an adapted Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) followed by a cyberball paradigm. Subjective EA ratings and physiological measurements were taken during the sessions. Results The BPD group showed significantly higher EA levels compared to HC across both conditions. While both groups exhibited peak EA after TSST, HC demonstrated EA reduction during Cyberball in both conditions. The BPD group maintained elevated EA levels in the stress condition. Physiological data partially supported these findings, with the BPD group showing higher heart rates, particularly during Cyberball in the stress condition. Discussion The aVeRsive tension paradigm successfully discriminated between BPD and HC groups, capturing both subjective and physiological responses. The sustained EA in the BPD group during stress conditions aligns with characteristic emotion dysregulation patterns. While task-specific effects were observed, with TSST eliciting stronger responses than Cyberball, the paradigm effectively simulated real-life stressors in a controlled VR environment. Conclusion This study validates the aVeRsive tension protocol as a promising tool for assessing EA in adolescents and young adults with BPD symptoms. The VR-based approach offers advantages in experimental control and ecological validity, showing potential for both diagnostic assessment and therapeutic intervention in clinical settings.

Data physicalizations are physical artifacts that represent data across sensory modalities. They are frequently used in informal learning environments, such as museums, which are inherently social spaces. Research on the design choices for data physicalizations and their effects in social contexts is sparse. Previous work examining the size of data physicalizations shows a tendency to favor larger designs to increase artefact-mediated social interactions among viewers (social engagement), but the empirical evidence remains inconclusive. To address this, we empirically investigated the effect of data physicalization size on social engagement and user experience. In this laboratory study, the social engagement between two viewers freely interacting with a data physicalization is analyzed across two sizes. The results do not indicate a clear advantage of a larger design for increasing social engagement. Thus, investing additional effort and material resources in making a physicalization larger would compromise sustainability for no measurable change in social engagement.

Whilst there is increasing work investigating the role of digital documentation, interpretation, and augmentation of cultural heritage, such interventions have largely focused on visual and sometimes auditory modalities, neglecting the full spectrum of human senses. With this workshop we seek to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, designers, practitioners and community members to explore creative approaches for documenting and experiencing cultural heritage’s rich sensory dimensions extending beyond visual-based approaches to encompass sound, smell, taste, and touch. The workshop directly aligns with the conference’s exploration of "Why Design?" by utilising design as a powerful, empathetic, and participatory tool for safeguarding cultural heritage. Our goal is to extend our understanding of concepts, methods and technologies for capturing and experiencing sensory heritage, advocating for a holistic approach that celebrates and communicates the profound sensory diversity of human cultures, inspiring a shift in how we document, interpret and share cultural heritage.

Abstract Topological magnets (TMs) with the coupled topology of electronic band structures and spin configuration have exhibited exotic transport properties that are overwhelmingly appealing for transverse thermoelectric applications. Despite the continuous discovery of TMs in recent years, the development of Nernst generators has much lagged. Here, high-performance Nernst generators are developed utilizing polycrystalline topological Heusler bulk magnets. Benefiting from the robustness of topological effect to grain boundary scattering, polycrystalline Co2MnGa is found to exhibit a large Nernst thermopower of ≈6.5 µV K?1 at 300 K, which is comparable to the previously reported record value in its single crystal. The developed Nernst generators thereby exhibit excellent performance with an output voltage of 5.4 mV and power of 14.3 µW, significantly higher than that of Nernst thermopiles assembled using conventional ferromagnets. These results pave the way to advancing TMs with intrinsically large Berry curvature for transverse thermoelectric applications.

With rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacting human health and wellbeing, scholarly discourse should focus equally on the prospective opportunities and harms of Human-AI Interaction (HAI) in Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). This panel invites critical interdisciplinary discussion around the (un)designing of AI by asking: how, when, where, and why should AI (not) be involved in sociotechnical systems for mental and spiritual health and wellbeing? Motivated by functional, technical, and ethical concerns, the panel aims to ensure that: (1) progress in HAI for mental and spiritual health is informed by expertise from the respective clinical disciplines; (2) ethical and responsible design principles lie at the core of research motivations and methodologies; and (3) AI hype can be tempered by caution given its impacts on marginalized and stigmatized groups. A panel of respected experts in mental health, spiritual care, and AI will discuss CSCW topics regarding HAI in contexts of clinical practice (e.g., electronic health records, patient portals, decision-making and referral systems, technology-supported interactions during bedside care or clinical appointments) as well as social contexts beyond the clinic (e.g., social apps, online health communities and social media, and computer-mediated communication in spiritual/religious groups).

A decade after Buie and Blythe’s review "Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research)", this sequel assesses the evolving landscape of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on religion and spirituality. While the enduring importance of religion and spirituality for humanity and its influence on technology use remains, the last decade has seen transformative shifts catalysed by technological advances and the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores whether and how HCI research on religion and spirituality has also changed. Providing a snapshot of the current research, we document and reflect on changes in the lines of research with a shift towards community, an increased consideration of religion and spirituality in related areas such as health, education, and society, and the broadening of challenges for HCI research on religion and spirituality.

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified our dependence on screen-based devices, re-shaping how we connect with one another. Motivated by a yearning for alternative and post-pandemic religious and spiritual (R/S) practice, we pursue a Research-through-Design (RtD) project, Resound, exploring mediated technospiritual connections with a UK-based Buddhist community. This pictorial depicts the complexity of (i) designing with spiritual-corporeal selves engaged in community-centred and ritualistic practices; (ii) and tangible artefacts and sonic environments being made, configured and practiced with. We reflect on this ongoing material engagement as making tangible alternatives through techno-spiritual practice.

Religion and spirituality (R/S) are an important part of many people’s lives, and while HCI is increasingly engaged in research and design in specific R/S contexts, there are many cases where researchers or designers encounter R/S outside of such contexts. In this workshop, we seek to bring together HCI researchers and designers across all research areas and with varying levels of experience with R/S to discuss encounters with R/S in their work, either intentional or not, and to develop principles and strategies to guide HCI research and design that intersects with R/S. Through this workshop, we also seek to further establish a network of scholars who can provide each other support in navigating R/S-related challenges and opportunities in their work and can participate in publication-oriented collaborations that consider the intersection of R/S and HCI.

Tangible artifacts and embodied experiences are central to religious and spiritual (R/S) practices, and many HCI researchers and interaction designers highlight the importance of materiality and physicality in design. In this review paper, we bring these perspectives together and examine 44 examples of R/S tangible interactive artifacts (TIAs) from academia, art, industry, and R/S communities to understand their specifics and guide future HCI research and design. We analyze these artifacts and map out a design space for R/S TIAs by matching identified characteristics of R/S TIAs with a framework from the study of material religion. The descriptive and generative R/S TIA Design Space covers insights into bodies, things, places, practices, and backgrounds. This paper offers a novel contribution to HCI research on the value and importance of tangibility and embodiment in technology-mediated practices in R/S contexts and serves as a source for future R/S TIA creation and research.

From candles to prayer beads to icons and more, tangible artifacts have long played a central role in religious and spiritual life. However, despite growing interest in HCI on design within religious and spiritual contexts, the intentional design of tangible interactive artifacts for religious or spiritual purposes is still relatively uncommon. This workshop aims at advancing our understanding of tangible interactive artifact design in religious and spiritual contexts and how religious and spiritual purposes may offer alternative approaches to design. We invite those interested from all professional and religious/spiritual backgrounds to imagine and design tangible interactive artifacts for religious or spiritual purposes such as beliefs, practices, or rituals. The workshop will include the demonstration of (imagined) artifacts, reflection on designing for religious/spiritual purposes, and hands-on design sessions.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of alternative formats for religious rituals, such as Protestant online worship services. However, current design approaches focus on problem-solving, and the resulting online solutions merely imitate the offline status quo. To overcome these limitations, we suggest adopting a provotype approach that allows for a more holistic, open-ended dialogue with those affected. We iteratively developed a first provotype in response to tensions found in observation-based field research, aiming to test whether and how it can trigger productive impulses for exploring future technology-mediated worship services based on existing experiences and perspectives. The resulting God-I-Box exaggerates individuality and allows congregants to act almost like liturgists. An analysis of congregants’ and pastors’ (online) first encounters with the God-I-Box revealed three reaction modes: spontaneous emotions, reflective coping, and exploratory imagination. We conclude with reflections and recommendations for provocative research and design in this context and beyond.

Virtual tourism products promise to combine the best of two worlds: Staying in the safety of one’s home while having engaging tourism experiences. Previous tourism research has emphasised that tourism experiences involve more than just seeing other places. They address cultural motives such as novelty and education and socio-psychological motives like relaxation, escape from a mundane environment or facilitation of social interaction. We suggest applying the motive-oriented perspective in HCI research on virtual tourism and report on a corresponding analysis of 21 virtual tourism products. Our findings show that current virtual tourism products neglect the breadth of tourist motives. They mainly focus on cultural motives while rarely addressing socio-psychological motives, especially kinship relationships and prestige. Our findings demonstrate the usefulness of the motive-oriented perspective for HCI and inspired conceptual ideas for addressing motives in virtual tourism products that may be useful for future research and design in this area.

This paper presents an inspirational concept for companion technology design, uncontrollability, and a corresponding artefact, the Blessing Companion. Both originated from a research through design project exploring companion technologies for blessing rituals. We established an exchange with Protestant theologians, explored believers’ experiences of blessings, co-speculated on potential technologies, and refined the resulting ideas through ideation, prototyping, and testing. Inspired by believers’ descriptions of blessing experiences as not plannable, predictable, controllable, or enforceable, we adopted the concept of uncontrollability, explored how it might be implemented in companion technologies, and designed the Blessing Companion. The Blessing Companion embodies uncontrollability through its ambiguous appearance and (partly) uncontrollable behaviour. It thus stands in contrast to the prevailing on-demand and user-driven interaction paradigms. We discuss how uncontrollability can be reflected in content, form, and interaction, highlight respective possibilities for companion technologies, and reflect on the Blessing Companion as an example of designing for religious rituals.

This paper proposes to improve the Viola-Jones algorithm to identify facial features in thermal images using a fuzzy linguistic modifier. The purpose is to improve the image quality in the infrared plane and to facilitate the recognition stage, feature selection and emotion classification. The results obtained show that adding a preprocessing stage improves the capability of the Viola-Jones algorithm in identifying facial features in thermal images.

In recent years, the trend has increasingly been to store and process data in the cloud. However, this is based on the premise that cloud providers treat the data in a trustworthy manner. One way of using the data in the cloud without the provider having access to it is homomorphic encryption. However, since this encryption has only recently become practicable, analysis of its for practical applications is still in its infancy. Therefore, we investigate the performance of homomorphic encryption using a real-world application, namely linear regression. Our main finding is that although the homomorphic computation of linear regression is in the range of minutes and thus slower than in the non-homomorphic case, linear regression can be computed homomorphic and is therefore suitable for use cases where data security is the top priority.

Good user experience can be described as the result of satisfying fundamental human needs through interaction with technology. Therefore, HCI researchers and practitioners strive to promote need satisfaction and avoid need frustration through their technology and interaction designs. However, HCI lacks appropriate measurement instruments to examine and evaluate experiences with technology in terms of their satisfaction (or frustration) of needs. Instead, researchers and practitioners frequently use measurement instruments developed in (consumer) psychology that are not tailored to the needs of HCI. Here we report on the development of the User Needs Scales (UNeedS), a set of scales designed to measure the satisfaction and frustration of 13 fundamental needs identified for HCI, and report on our first experiences applying it. Preliminary data indicate good item qualities and internal consistencies, but further research must substantiate these claims. All scales and the full UNeedS are available in the supplemental materials.

People with religious and/or spiritual interests have long been digitally connected and have engaged in joint prayer, worship, or meditation. However, the COVID pandemic has accelerated this trend as more religious and/or spiritual activities were technologically mediated. Many of these formats had to be implemented quickly, often with little participation from stakeholders. In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds, such as religious studies, theology, HCI, and participatory design, to start a conversation about what collaborative technological design and research with religious and/or spiritual communities could look like in the future and what needs to be done to get to such futures. The outcomes of this workshop will be the formation of a transdisciplinary research and design community, the establishment of guiding principles and best practices that can inform research and design methodologies, and the dissemination of this knowledge in collaborative post-workshop publications.

Life transitions, such as the transition from childhood to adulthood, are often accompanied by meaning-making actions such as rituals. Rituals increasingly involve the use of interactive technology. While previous research has focused on specific contexts or technologies, a bird’s eye view of the many appropriation styles during life transitions is missing. To identify the range of technology’s appropriations, we analysed stories from 84 participants and compared these across different life transitions and technologies. We identified three roles interactive technology can play during life transitions: the role of (i) a facilitator easing the accomplishment of tasks within life transitions, (ii) an enabler creating opportunities for new transition rituals and (iii) a social actor that itself is the trigger or the content of transition rituals. We propose the three roles as a classification scheme to structure existing and future research and reflect on the design challenges and evaluation approaches.

Since the COVID-19 pandemics, we have witnessed an increase in online worship services. Nevertheless, HCI has little insight into how technological mediation influences religious experiences and how technology should be designed for use in religious contexts. Therefore, we see a unique opportunity to understand better real-world experiences of technology use in religious rituals and, more specifically, in online worship services. Inspired by contextual design, We virtually observed and interviewed eight persons during and after participation in online worship services. We identified a field of tension between faith, everyday life, individuality, and community. The data suggests that current online worship service systems do not account for believers’ needs for community, faith, or extraordinariness. We discuss opportunities for future research and design, and aim to contribute to the understanding of online worship service experiences and the design of technology-mediated religious experiences.

Sacerdote católico, poeta y escultor comprometido políticamente con los conflictos sociales de su país, Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal experimentó en 1956 una conversión espiritual que cambió su vida para siempre. Tras entrar en contacto con Thomas Merton y escribir uno de sus poemarios fundamentales, fundó la comunidad contemplativa de Solentiname, ubicada en el archipiélago del mismo nombre e inspirada en el proyecto evangelizador que le propone Merton durante su estancia en la Trapa. Esta obra, Vida en el amor, es considerada la cima de su obra mística. El mensaje que contiene se vuelve, tras su muerte y las circunstancias históricas que atraviesa la humanidad, especialmente necesario.

»Hüschs Zeitkritik war stets Ideologiekritik des skeptischen Individuums, des kleinen Mannes auf der Straße, der sich so seine Gedanken macht. Obwohl er während der Revoltejahre keineswegs abseits stand und sich wie viele damals wünschte ›Komm heißer Herbst und mache / Die Bäume alle rot‹, wurde ihm ein ›bourgeoiser Verniedlichungstrend‹ vorgeworfen ... Beim Folklore-Festival auf der Burg Waldeck 1968 buhte man ihn gar unter wüsten Beschimpfungen – ›Kitschgemüt mit Goldbrokat‹ – von der Bühne. Die Ironie der Geschichte will, dass er heute zu den Letzten – und zugleich Besten – der Branche gehört, die überhaupt noch in den Kategorien von Politik und Gesellschaft, Kritik und Solidarität denken, denken können - ja, die überhaupt noch aus eigenem Antrieb Ideen entwickeln und nicht von angestellten Gagschreibern getextete Texte auswendig vortragen müssen, bis die Quotenguillotine fällt.« (Quelle: Der Spiegel vom 1. Mai 2000)