Mette Ramsgard

Mette is Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the emergent intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA seeks to investigate how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice.

CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design - and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. Using design and practice based research methods; the aim is to explore the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

Mette is currently working on a series of projects under the heading Robotic Membranes which question how the pliable technologies of textiles can be understood as a technology of assemblage for a reactive and durational architecture.  In 2003 she co-founded Escape with Jesper - a platform merging contemporary design practice with the production of interactive systems.

Mette has worked as a researcher and tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, UCL and a Senior Lecturer at University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design. Mette has been involved with exhibitions, performances, workshops and seminars. She has worked in multiple international research centres including the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany and the Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Washington, USA and taught globally. Mette studied at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. In 2004 she completed a PhD in architecture and computer science at University College London.