Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant (Politecnico di Torino & Università degli Studi di Ferrara)
Biography
Richard Lee Peragine is an architect and PhD in Urban and Regional Development (URD) at the Politecnico di Torino. His doctoral work, awarded summa cum laude, looked at the relationship between sovereignty and emptiness in the northwesternmost corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a way to address the ethics of the project of architecture. He is currently a scholarship holder at the Department of Archietcture, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, working on mobility justice in agricultural production. He has presented his research at, among other institutions, ICI Berlin, TU Delft, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Center for Advanced Studies Rijeka, and IUAV, and some aspects are published or forthcoming, among other journals, in the Journal of Architecture and the Journal of Urbanism. Prior to research, he worked in architectural studios in London, Bologna, Berlin and Brussels.
Research interests
His research interests lie at the intersection of architecture and urbanism, planning, political ecology and critical theory, contemporary philosophy, with a focus on theories of power, ethics, the discourse on sustainability and the Anthropocene, the relationship between border violence, migration and detention with particular reference to the Balkan and Mediterranean area.
Selected publications
Peragine, R.L. (forthcoming) ‘Not a Project at All. A Plural Project of Urban Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, The Journal of Urbanism
Boano, C. and Peragine, R. L. (2024) ‘A pedagogy of uselessness: challenging solutionism and utility in the Anthropocene through architectural pedagogy’, The Journal of Architecture, pp. 1-24
Fardin J.I. e Peragine R.L. (2023), ‘The Promise(s) of Sustainability’ In: e(time)ologies or the changing meaning of architectural words, Delft 10-11 October, 2023, pp. 154-162. critic|all PRESS + Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos (ETSAM-UPM).
Peragine, R.L. (forthcoming) ‘Not a Project at All. A Plural Project of Urban Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, The Journal of Urbanism
Boano, C. and Peragine, R. L. (2024) ‘A pedagogy of uselessness: challenging solutionism and utility in the Anthropocene through architectural pedagogy’, The Journal of Architecture, pp. 1-24
Fardin J.I. e Peragine R.L. (2023), ‘The Promise(s) of Sustainability’ In: e(time)ologies or the changing meaning of architectural words, Delft 10-11 October, 2023, pp. 154-162. critic|all PRESS + Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos (ETSAM-UPM).
Contacts: richard.peragine@polito.it & prgrhr@unife.it
TEAM
Giovanna Astolfo
Co-Investigator
Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator
Edoardo Ciuffreda
Research Assistant
Antonio Di Campli
Research Assistant
Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant
Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Stefano Mastromarino
Research Assistant
Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant
Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator
Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.