One thing we rarely do when we’re in the city is stand still and look at it—unless you are smoking in a doorway or waiting for a bus. Why would we? We’re trying to get somewhere. And if we are on the move, we are traffic and have to keep an eye on the road, not the horizon.

Still Walking isn’t afraid to visit the grittier side of town if there’s something interesting to be found there.

‘Critics are quick to dismiss Birmingham as an architecturally unrewarding place to visit. It’s true that it has been built up, replanned and torn down more than almost any other place of comparable size in the country, but its compact centre, 2,000 listed buildings and the sheer ceaselessness of its regeneration make it an exciting place to walk.’

Time Out

Radial Truths will be a three-hour cycling tour exploring what’s left of Birmingham’s cycling industry, and in many cases, that’s an archeological exploration.

I joined Kira O’Reilly’s Silent Walk – a performance piece in which a group are led in silence into the streets and allowed to find their own direction and leader. Both direction and leader constantly alter over the course of an hour. My usual role is tour guide, but here I held back to watch what was happening. The tour faltered twice – once to watch water bubbling through the pavement (a broken water main). No one seemed to want to leave. The second was outside the police station on Digbeth High Street… interesting.