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ABOUT

Grounded Thinking was established by Paul Wilson as a shop-window for different projects. Paul is a serial collaborator who has worked in the senior teams of global technology companies and with city leaders. Paul works with people from around the world from large and small organisations in the public and private sectors. It makes an ‘About Us’ page challenging.

Grounded Thinking’s work is produced by a wide diversity of people, coming together to fit different commissions. We work with data and digital infrastructure, we work with cities and people, we cultivate nature and plan for climate chaos. We discover and tell stories. We create innovation testbeds. We bring people together. We manage strategy creation, procurement advisory, and project delivery. Grounded Thinking’s work is always pragmatic and forward looking. Grounded Thinking’s collaborators live in the same world as you, where rapid urbanization is a daily reality for us, where technology plays an ever more influential role in our lives, where nature is usually the biggest loser while also being the source of nourishment for everything else.

Our thinking is inspired by lots of people, here’s a few you might know

CITIES:

Jane Jacobs

New Urbanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

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TECH:

Norbert Wiener

Founder of Cybernetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener

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NATURE:

Suzanne Simard

Wood-Wide-Web Researcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Simard

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CITIES:

Paul Wilson

Founder

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NATURE:

Michelle Howard

General Manager

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