Some things become businesses. Some become stories. Some stay experiments for years. Root & Render gives all of them somewhere useful to grow.
The work getting the most studio energy right now.
Fantastical Field Notes & Flawless Fabrications
A transmedia Ontario field project where comedy, fictional bureaucracy, real history, naturalism, maps, citizen science, cosplay, and story all occupy the same suspicious file cabinet.
Furniture, props, costumes, mechanisms, and strange things made real.
A physical-making branch for one-of-one furniture transformations, props, cosplay pieces, practical effects, mechanisms, and animatronic experiments.
A story carried by signal, place, and whatever answers back.
A developing transmedia story told through prose, Newcastle Port Pulse broadcasts, podcasts, interactive geography, documents, and other artifacts that let the fiction leak into the real world.
Sound from the edge of Lake Ontario.
An evolving local media project built through Instagram and YouTube from music, weather, field recordings, stories, and the texture of life around Newcastle.
Long-running research threads, prototypes, and technologies that feed the rest of the studio.
Personal technology that feels more alive.
A long-running R&D project exploring humane personal computing, knowledge systems, ambient interfaces, and nature-informed interaction design.
A local intelligence layer for AetherOS.
A personal, locally oriented AI and knowledge system designed to connect information, projects, tasks, and future devices.
Wearable and spatial interfaces for the AetherOS ecosystem.
Experiments in wearable computing, spatial interaction, and ambient access to personal digital systems.
Ecological field technology with a playful edge.
A real-world Pokédex concept for species observations, regional discovery, maps, citizen science, and ecological exploration.
Completed studies and retired experiments stay visible without competing with current work.
An early game prototype used to explore atmosphere, interaction, progression, and how a larger fictional world might feel in-browser.
An exploratory digital-audio interface focused on playful composition, layering, and learning how creative tools can feel approachable in-browser.
A compact 3D browser experiment exploring movement, lighting, night atmosphere, and the feeling of walking through a small digital place.
A playful browser experiment that generates random creative constraints for songwriting and music-making.