Real rooms
Gatherings with RSVP and opt-in check-in. Technology routes people to physical circles — not surveillance or feed addiction.
Solarpunk infrastructure · Regenerative · Local-first
Cooperative tech that ends at a real door.
S² Arts Lab is solarpunk infrastructure — not another engagement feed. Match on values, host gatherings, route surplus locally, govern what repeats, and add AI only when you want it (BYOK and local-first by default).
Allies & Artists
Creative community
DAOFlow
Governance circles
Pro Se Legal
Self-represented justice
S² Forge
App Builder
S²
Community Hub
Solarpunk infrastructure
Technology that regenerates community
From deep key: solarpunk here means regenerative, not extractive — cooperative economics, physical gatherings, mutual aid, and infrastructure you can own. Every major CTA in our ecosystem is designed to end in a neighbor action or a real room, not infinite scroll.
Surplus, not spectacle
S² Pantry routes mutual aid locally. Dignity-first free goods; Pantry Fund when shipping matters.
Collectives, not platforms
DAOFlow templates for community spaces and artist collectives that outlive one organizer.
Your keys
Local-first profiles, BYOK AI, optional hosted tier. Platform keys off by default.
The gathering spine
- Tribe Mapper — find your people on values
- Allies & Artists — profile, host site, RSVP
- S² Pantry — bring surplus to the circle
- S² Learn — organizer skills (First circle checklist)
- DAOFlow — govern what repeats
How the stack is designed
Edge & compute
Cloudflare Pages + Workers at the edge; r730 local inference (ComfyUI, Ollama) before cloud fallback. Power-aware ops on dedicated hardware.
Visual Commons
Consented training corpora — cooperative contributor pipeline, no scrape-and-train. Solarpunk aesthetics cultivated, not stolen.
Federated apps
Each app on its own subdomain, deep-linked through the Hub. Sibling app chips — not silos.
Utility economics
S2E service credits through utility and disciplined mint — not investment promises. Billing peg ≠ market price.
Who we are
About S² Arts Lab
S² Arts Lab is a community software studio founded by sisters Shasta Winn and Sharayah Rushing. We ship apps and learning tools where mutual aid, fair governance, and creative work come first — with AI only when it genuinely helps.
We also work in storytelling, education, and solarpunk worldbuilding — always asking whether technology deepens human creativity or flattens it.
We're sisters building from the same root. "S² Arts" carries our mother's maiden name, Stewart — a family thread we chose to turn into shared work. We started S² because the tools we needed didn't exist: community that isn't an engagement trap, governance people can actually use, and legal tools that don't require a law degree to get started.
Shasta Winn
Shasta's work follows the line between consciousness, technology, creativity, and human autonomy — and the futures where communities use thoughtful tools, ecological design, and shared infrastructure to reduce burnout and widen access to education, healing, and collective participation.
Through writing, public education, immersive narrative, and platform development, she focuses on whether emerging tech opens doors or reinforces gatekeeping. Her facilitation and advocacy work centers ethical practice, dignity, and access.
Sharayah Rushing
Sharayah turns complex ideas into experiences that feel intuitive and emotionally grounded. Her background spans copywriting, branding, web experience design, creative direction, and narrative-driven communication.
At S² Arts Lab she shapes the studio's public voice — translating layered concepts into clear invitations to participate, not overwhelm. She cares about clarity without sterility: how language, visual atmosphere, and digital architecture help people feel seen in online spaces that are often fragmented or purely transactional.
Together, Shasta and Sharayah run S² Arts Lab as an evolving creative ecosystem — part studio, part laboratory, part storytelling engine for futures that feel more alive, participatory, ecological, and human.
What we've built
A growing constellation of community tools
Each app runs on its own subdomain. The Hub at app.s2artslab.com ties them together — Connected for core apps, Launch pad for more official tools, and the Plug-In Market for community-built apps.
S² Community Hub
Your front door — Connected apps, Launch pad, Plug-In Market, optional AI lab tools.
Browse registered apps →Connected — core ecosystem
Launch pad — official apps
Community — Plug-In Market
Community first
People before platforms — solarpunk by design.
The platform grows with you: launch official apps from the Hub, build your own in S² Forge, and share them on the Plug-In Market. Our active campaign — Solarpunk IRL — ties Tribe, Allies, Pantry, Learn, and DAOFlow into one in-person journey. AI lab tools are one layer; mutual aid, learning, and fair governance stay at the center.