Diamond Street App

Diamond Street App
03/01/2012 Rachel Lichtenstein

Diamond Street App

 

The Diamond Street App is a freely downloadable GPS activated rich media digital app for smartphones and tablets, which takes readers on a journey through the historic jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden and the stories in Rachel’s Lichtenstein’s book Diamond Street: the hidden world of Hatton Garden. Guided by Rachel, along with a host of other characters, the secrets of the streets around the Hatton Garden area will be revealed to users as they wander around the area, listening and exploring.

This first of its kind digital project, uses content from the book Diamond Street along with specially developed rich media, soundscapes and interactive features, enabling readers to go on either a virtual (armchair version) or a real guided tour around the Hatton Garden area. As users walk within the boundaries of the original Hatton Garden estate, sounds, images, film and text  emerge in relation to specific locations, giving readers a deeper and more immersive experience of both the book and the places described within. Part new media experience, part walking tour, this location-based app fuses text, documentary film and image with real-time interaction. This project was supported by the Arts Council (Grants for the Arts) and developed by Rachel Lichtenstein in collaboration with Calvium, Metal, Field-Studies and Phantom Productions.

www.diamondstreetapp.com

Listen to an excerpt from the audio tour and view some of the specially commissioned films made for the app.