ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether locative media can develop a deeper connection with a region and its landscape. It draws on the analysis of and reflection on data collected from users of the Hayle Churks app created by Lucy Frears using app-making software AppFurnace by Calvium. After collecting different media and content that can be described as deep mapping, an original layered multimedia app was created during practice-based research. Instead the Hayle Churks app was developed in a challenging site off the main tourist trail: a marginal coastal area on the edge of a post-industrial town from which many visible historical traces, which could have linked past and present, had been removed. Access to and participation with stories of place using locative media extends the potential of deep mapping and its exhibition and dissemination through rich media Merz layers and textures accessible on a mobile phone as demonstrated in the Hayle Churks app.
