“Artery” is a speculative world-building project exploring a future founded on the mutualism of people, infrastructure, and technology.

Acting as an architectural Trojan horse, the project uses unconventional design thinking and doing to challenge existing social and political structures, bringing questions of societal vulnerability, queer values, political power, and accessibility of healthcare services into architectural discourse.

By transforming the conventional public water fountain, which is inherently an everyday piece of public health infrastructure, into a vehicle for false fronts, “Artery” questions who actually has access to medical procedures and substances, and how access is shaped by time, social acceptance, and institutional power.

Rather than providing solutions in the academic setting, “Artery” uses speculation to expose societal tensions and invite questions about the systems we inhabit and the futures that could be possible.