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 Architecture, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, working on mobility justice in agricultural production. He joined the Centre for Advanced Studies Rijeka through an Erasmus+ mobility programme. He has presented his research at, among other institutions, ICI Berlin, TU Delft, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 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.