Issue 1/Mapping the Gaps

Parallel Action

The London Circle, one of the first ones to pop up, has just published the result of a year's work online.

gapmap.uk is what twelve months of Circle meetings, smaller sessions and private one-to-ones turned into. In its own words it is "a map of concrete, fillable gaps in the UK's civic, economic and technological fabric: what is missing, what would fill it, and who is building it." It was built by ip3-studio as a Logos Circle / London initiative, alongside allies from the Anglofuturist movement the Circle first engaged in November 2025, after a House of Lords debate on decentralised versus centralised identity.

The platform is built to be acted on. Every gap carries:

An urgency score
A timeline between six months and seven years
A resolver category:
- Build now — no permission required: a competent team could pick it up today.
- Build together — needs a willing partner (council, NHS trust, regulator).
- State-led — only government can do it.

As of late August the map holds 205 gaps.

Mapping is one of the most impactful things a Circle can do, as it lays the foundation for precise and direct action, as well as creating a database that others can follow. A walking audit, an inventory, an afternoon spent asking people what is missing, then a page of what you found.

A gap with a name and a timeline is something a handful of people can take on directly and actually finish. Finished gaps pull the next wave of people in. Do it enough times in one place and the action stops being a run of separate events. One bulk-buy becomes a food co-op, a scan of the vacant lots becomes a land trust, a free screening day with volunteer nurses becomes primary care the community runs itself.

If you are in the UK and you can build, the fifty-five gaps marked build now are on gapmap.uk. Pick one and claim it.

Logos Circle / London, report by roxanneen, 30 July 2026. Site checked 28 August 2026.