Stonehouse - An Evaluation

The Transforming Stonehouse project has been a year long investigation into the area of Stonehouse, its character, its people and how it can be improved.  Ultimately the work that we have carried out over this year can be broken down into three basic sections. These are The Site, The Hertzian Space, and the Final Arduino Project.  Throughout these various section the ideas that my group and I were having regarding the transformation of Stonehouse were investigated and developed, eventually leading us to an implementable project that could potentially transform Stonehouse for the better. Throughout the year our ideas have been continually developed whilst also ensuring that we kept to one particular focus.  At the beginning of the year we spent time looking at Stonehouse in relation to light, which we then developed further during our long exposure investigation into the concept of communication using light.  This then got transferred to our Arduino project which lead us to developing the project we have created.
In terms of our project I am quite happy with what we have managed to achieve with the Arduino.  Although we have been unable to implement it properly as of yet this was to be expected and so achieving a working model as we did was good.  There are however a few elements of the final project that could be improved or developed further.  Firstly the concept of communication through light was good, but I feel our final project strayed slightly from this as the use of text meant that we were communicating regardless of the use of light.  The only part light had to play in our project was the use of the projection and so the involvement of light with communication could have been developed further.  As well as this the information we used for the project could have been better researched in terms of people's opinions and words that they felt would be opposite to the feel of Stonehouse.  The words we used were chosen based on our group's personal opinion of the area and other opinions we had gathered over the year.  Although these opinions seemed to be the general consensus we did not find out the opinions of the general public in the area and so we may have misjudged how people feel about Stonehouse. 
In terms of further development, one element that could be added to our projection could be some kind of interactive feature.  People like to investigate interactive projections much more that non-interactive ones, where parts of the projection interact with their movements, so to get our information across better, and to transform Stonehouse further our projection could be developed to react to people's movements infront of the projection. 
Ultimately our final project gives a clear message and works effectively incorporating Arduino technology and ideas we have developed throughout the year.  I am happy with the project we have created and feel it is a sucessful development for our site in Stonehouse.