Introduction

Aleksandra Ianchenko is a doctoral candidate in Studies of Culture. She studied Fine Arts at Irkutsk Technical University, Russia and then obtained her second MA degree in Art Management at Russian State University of Humanities in Moscow and at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her current research is embedded within the project “Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting (PUTSPACE)”. As an artist, Aleksandra uses a range of creative mediums with the aim to understand atmospheres on urban public transport and the ways in which they can be changed through performative public art practice.