Since joining studio-L (a community design company) in 2011, Noriko has been encouraging local communities to get involved with creating their own future. The categories range from social welfare, social and adult education, town management, revitalising the town centres etc. Projects she has managed in the past were to inspire local people to “Think seriously about a future job in the nursing industry” -Design School of Care and Welfare- (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Japan, 2018) and “Creating community activities for elderly people” (Akita city, 2017).