Connecting people and place

Looking to the future of the bayside suburb of St Kilda, architect and artist Matthew Bird, in collaboration with sociologist Brady Robards and urban planner Suzanne Barker from Monash University, has developed a research-based exhibition named Soft Infrastructures: St Kilda Reimagined.The exhibition was recently on show at Linden New Art in St Kilda. The project itself was inspired by the Palais de Danse, a large dance hall built in 1919 and formerly located next to the Palais Theatre until it