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Item Restricted Life Inside Dirt; Soil as A Living Archive: Restoring Communities and Spaces on “Nailor’s Row”(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Alharbi, Saud; Wiszniewski, Dorian; Pattinson, Paul; Hilley, Mark; Cunning, Neil; Xian, Leo; Dochartaigh, Killian O’Life Inside Dirt: Soil as a Living Archive reimagines the ground beneath Derry as a living storyteller — a layered memory of struggle, growth, and renewal. Each grain of soil holds traces of the city’s past: from siege rubble and industrial ash to the roots of new life. This project transforms excavation into design, turning trenches into classrooms and clay into architecture. Through seven imagined colleges along “Nailor’s Row,” soil becomes both muse and material — revealing forgotten histories while cultivating new communities. Architecture here does not sit upon the land; it grows from it, teaching resilience, continuity, and the quiet power of earth itself.5 0