Emma links architecture and textile into a single field of inquiry. Her work unfolds around notions of cohabitation and reallocation. Drawing from a personal repertoire of techniques and materials, she adapts herself to the resources at hand, turning the constraints of reality into the very substance of her playground. She is drawn to the translation of gestures and knowledge, and to the circulation of objects across cultures, the “undercommons.”

At the core of her global textile exploration, which she dubbed “Système T”, she works with materials salvaged from the ruins of industry and construction, attracted by their social resonance and their imprint on everyday material culture. Through pre-industrial techniques, she gives these resources new roles, allowing overlooked skills and forms of making to come back into view. Her work therefore ranges from material research to the creation of textile objects and scenographic installations, attentive to the scale and context of each project.

For Emma, textile is a pivotal medium a threshold between the domestic and the collective. She seeks to preserve the essence of materials while opening new forms of relation to the common, making ornamentation a politics of detail and attention.