RECOMMENDED: TRASH CAN VOCABULARIES 🗑️ DesignMarch 2026 / 2026.05.09. 🇮🇸

Bjørn Penk, Gosia Trajkowska and Agata Lech invite you to TRASH CAN VOCABULARIES - a performative soundwalk that merges systemic design and performing arts into a shared urban experience. Set around SORPA Grandi, the walk explores waste and the politics of what remains.

Through guided narration, participants move together through the site - listening, observing, and becoming temporarily choreographed as a collective body. The walk invites reflection on what we throw away and what refuses to disappear. What does it mean to consume a lunch, a place, a story? What kinds of vocabularies do our trash cans hold?

Rooted in storytelling and embodied walking, TRASH CAN VOCABULARIES seeks to create a temporary community willing to question contemporary habits, critically examine systems of waste, encountering step-by-step what might be a very familiar everyday site as a new territory of speculative futures and possibilities.

Premiering during the weekend of DesignMarch 2026, we invite you to walk with us and maybe unlearn something together.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Participants meet at the starting point and receive access to the audio file on site. Internet access is needed to play the file.

The narration of the soundwalk will be in English.

We will not be moving at a fast pace, but the walk might be inaccessible for those with mobility difficulties.

Please bring a charged device (smartphone, tablet, or MP3 player) and your own headphones (charged, if wireless).

If you need a device to use, headphones, or more information, send us an email at: userpenk@gmail.com

 

TRASH CAN VOCABULARIES

Saturday, 09.05.2026 15:00

SORPA Grandi (main entrance)

free entrance

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Made by: Bjørn Penk and Gosia Trajkowska

Sound edit and music: Agata Lech

Photos: Sandijs Ruluks

Project is co-funded by: Reykjavíkurborg