Black Rock Beachcombers will be accompanied by an augmented reality app that enables Smartphone users to digitally ‘plant’ Sea Kale on the beach. The Sea Kale AR app will be launched as part of a series of guided walks around the Black Rock Beachcombers during the Brighton Fringe Festival in May 2025.
The app is inspired by a large scale project to re-wild the beach at Black Rock with native plants and ‘waves’ of shingle have been created to protect the young plants as they take root. Central to this process of re-wilding is the plant Sea Kale, a strange edible plant whose seeds float out to sea and can lay dormant for many years before germination is started when the seeds are broken open on the rocks. This can be seen as a metaphor for the Black Rock site itself. Sea Kale takes five years to flower and produce seeds the augmented reality artwork will enable users to experience various stages of it’s lifecycle.
We look forward to sharing the Smartphone app here and digitally re-imagine the beach with its forthcoming fully grown Sea Kale.
