"WMNs Work" is a collaboration with Amazonian midwives to birth a wireless internet system. With architectural nodes built and maintained at the scale of their community, the project delivers access to local and global communication networks.

In the context of Amazonian Ecuador, money from the global oil economy circulates in a network out of reach of local indigenous people. For example, many Kichwa persons can now barely afford to use the bus to travel to the city to sell their agricultural products. Instead, they use canoes to travel down the river at a slower pace and a cheaper rate. Along these routes, internet and other communication networks are rarely accessible. Conversely, the telecom infrastructure coincides with the roads associated with petroleum transport and the larger global oil economy.

In service to these indigenous economies and their political voices, WMNs Work installs a mesh network along the river with the women of Amupakin, an indigenous womens organization and midwifery, stewards of the the Ecaudorian Amazon's cultural practices and now its local internet. To that end, the project engages an understanding of the way that the internet, as a material object, can be monumentalized, constructed, and distributed to cater to a wide variety of community spatial practices. The project will serve as a model by which other researchers can understand how to interact with communities to create resilient, effective, and meaningful infrastructure. The introduction of internet access as a first, necessary, and affordable step in local development in the global south, rather than as a latter, more expensive amenity changes the process of development socially, politically, and physically.

The material development of a mesh network that is connected to the global internet is essential to democratization of developing countries. The goal of this project is the development of a network that is self-healing, self-discovering and re-configuring, and relatively inexpensive to implement and care for. These characteristics allow for a network that can be self-maintained, regulated and controlled. Therefore, they offer greater independence to their users.

The development of node enclosures offers greater compatibility of internet systems with 'natural' environments like the Amazon. These enclosures, which offer UV protection and weather and impact resistance, create small-scale architectural enclosures for hardware systems, yet they do not encroach upon the animal or plant life of the surrounding ecosystem. They offer a form of cohabitation necessary for the survival of these kinds of life and livelihoods.