Examining the nature of architecture and engineering as branches of science, Mutant Bridges is part of a larger series of works from Madrid called Science Friction.

Borrego Cubero says that while bridges are often seen as devices of connecting, unification, and inclusion, they are also paradoxically exclusionary, with technology as enabler in a process of "spanning the landscape."

In the series of works, bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bixby Creek Bridge are examined as they relate to the interaction of human social networks.