We’re thrilled to announce that the paper “What Comes After Noticing?: Reflections on Noticing Solar Energy and What Came Next” has been recognized as one of the Best Paper Award winners at the ACM CHI Conference 2025!
Written by Angella Mackey and Martijn de Waal from the AUAS – Civic Interaction Design Research Group, in collaboration with David NG McCallum (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences), Oscar Tomico (Eindhoven University of Technology), this paper is among the top 1% of all 5,014 completed submissions—a remarkable achievement!
This work was part of the Designing with the Sun project, exploring the role of “noticing” in designing with more-than-human perspectives. Through autoethnographic studies, the paper reflects on the transformative potential of noticing solar energy and the challenges of sustaining such awareness in design practice.
A big congratulations to the authors!
