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ABOUT

Grounded Thinking was established by Paul Wilson as a shop-window for different projects he has been involved with. 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.

Grounded Thinking’s work is produced by a wide diversity of people, coming together to fit different projects and commissions. We bring people together. We discover and tell stories. We manage strategy creation and large-scale procurement advisory. We work with cities and people. We work with data and digital infrastructure. We cultivate nature and plan for climate chaos. We create innovation testbeds with infrastructure owners.

Grounded Thinking’s work is always pragmatic and forward looking. We 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. We live in hope. We work in partnership.

Three inspiring people

Jane Jacobs

New Urbanism

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

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Norbert Wiener

Founder of Cybernetics

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

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Suzanne Simard

Wood-Wide-Web Researcher

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

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FOUNDER:

Paul Wilson

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GENERAL MANAGER:

Michelle Howard

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