Mette Ramsgaard is an award-winning architect and head of the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA). Ramsgaard's research centres on the intersection between architecture and computer science. Her focus is on the changes that digital technologies cause in the way architecture is thought, designed and built.

Mette Ramsgaard has received the 2016 Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence awarded to CITA by ACADIA and the 2011 Anna Nordlander Prize for female architects, among others.

In this podcast, Ramsgaard recognises that architects are now standing in front of a new practice with new digital tools that are allowing to rethink the building process. She also acknowledges the impact that robotics will have in the architecture sector in the near future, including the conceptual changes.

Common Futures is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aim to empower our community to make positive change as a platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that will shape the future.

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