“Architectures: The Garden City” is one of the three sections of IDENTITY, a project by Patrizia Genovesi presented as a single immersive installation that combines photography, video, and artificial intelligence to explore the concept of identity within contemporary space.
This section focuses on Garbatella, a Roman neighborhood founded in 1920 as an experimental garden city. Genovesi approaches it through the lens of architecture as a social structure — a place of coexistence, daily life, and perceptual complexity.
Garbatella is not an urban backdrop, but a network of lived spaces: courtyards, gardens, communal areas, irregular volumes. An architecture that is not monumental, but deeply symbolic. Photography here engages with a city form meant to be inhabited, not displayed.
Through images, projections, voice narration, and interactive interfaces (QR/NFC), the installation creates a sensory-critical experience that questions the relationship between space, memory, and identity.
This journey dialogues with the project’s other two sections: one on new residential forms in Copenhagen, and the other on algorithmic identity in the age of artificial intelligence. Together, they form a unified curatorial vision hosted at Open Studio Gallery.
