Functionality and practical solutions form the fundamental framework for Emma van Noort's sculptures inspired by standardized infrastructures in an urban and domestic environment. Her latest works are modernist ruins that feel both alienating and familiar, articulating a critical perspective on urban dwelling. 

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Her research focusses on architecture from the early 20th century to get a deeper understanding how urban planning shapes social structures. She dived into ideas like ‘the house as a machine for living’ with its white plastered walls, mass produced kitchens and functionalist social housing. Armed with the phrase ‘Form Follows Function’ her works are shaped by concepts of efficiency, standardization and human proportions. Crossovers between art, social design and architecture are the core inspiration for her installations and fictive texts.

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Emma's project ‘Christine’s Choreography’ explored dwelling gender differences in the context of efficiency. She questioned the traditionally female domestic domain designed by a historically male dominated architectural field. In the sequel project ‘Lazy Susan’ she currently researches household technology and post WWII urban planning inviting historical voices of female entrepreneurs compared with the contemporary Tradwife movement. Here she explore domestic gender inequality caused by ideas of the traditional nuclear family imposed on the housewife of the 1950’s.