Park Hill: Digital Ghosts from the "Streets in the Sky"

This report adopts a “future archaeological” perspective, examining the Park Hill estate in 2026 through a data recovery lens dated to 2126. By analysing recovered digital artefacts, the project identifies “digital ghosts” of a previous century. Using stratigraphic recovery, we observe how the “Streets in the Sky” functioned as early repositories of digital precariousness, where human social utility was overwritten by the logistical signals of a nascent automated era. Ultimately, this methodology of “future archaeology” serves as a tool to defamiliarise the observer with the present, stripping away contemporary biases to reveal the fragile digital strata of 2026.