This is a place by the river. Yaluk Langa is a project in the grounds of the Heide Museum of Modern Art. The brief emerged out of a long-standing partnership between Heide and the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and asked for the provision of an outdoor space at the edge of the Birrarung where people could gather, listen and learn. The location was selected by Uncle Dave Wandin. in a clearing amongst the trees – a place “where Bunjil can watch from above”. The site is typical of the river in this location – a zone of inundation and flood with an absence of infrastructure allowing access to the water’s edge. At the same time, it is the most remarkable ever-changing, never-changing vantage of the river itself.  The design has a floor of pink mudstone, the underlying geology of the site. The stone is laid flush with the bank and collected in a loose arc forming seats that are heavy enough to withstand flood and inundation. Shallow terrace steps are an invitation down and into the site from the Heide sculpture garden above. The name of the project, given by the Wurrundjeri in Woi-wurrung language is Yaluk Langa or ‘river edge’, a name also scored into the mudstone at the thresholds to the space.