Date: Saturday, 30 May 2026
Venue: London School of Economics
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Roundtable introductions, followed by a structured workshop and open discussion
Event page: https://luma.com/logos-lse
Organised by: Roxana Nasoi and James Zaki
Attendance: 14 participants (students + hosts), 20 registered
Summary:
Logos Circle came to the LSE for its May edition, co-hosted with the LSE Blockchain Society and chaired by Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva of the Data Science Institute. The session opened with a roundtable introduction from each attendee before moving into the central question that anchors the Circle: what is Logos, and what does it offer a generation inheriting legacy systems of debt, surveillance, and corruption?
Rather than approach the topic abstractly, the room worked through Logos as a movement for sovereign technology and a revitalised civil society - an alternative to institutions that can be captured, or quietly turned against the people they are meant to serve.
Major reflections from the room
One attendee offered three reflections that captured the spirit of the session:
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Prevention first, augmentation second. Secure technology earns an undercut amplification of its importance because it works as prevention before it works as enhancement. We can prepare for catastrophe far more effectively than we can react to it once it arrives.
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Built on trust, yet bad-actor proof. The attendee arrived expecting that intensive “vetting” would be necessary to keep such a system safe. James Zaki flipped that thinking: a well-designed system has tolerance for wrongdoing built in. Individual protective sovereignty, combined with a public ledger, allows for a more unified form of protection.
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Flexibility and freedom. When you are not forced to adhere to a centralised system, authenticity and community reign free.
Read the full report on Notion . Next workshop TBA at the start of the new semester (October).