Love · Strength · Rebellion

Building
from the inside
out.

LSR Media House CIC is a South London research and community organisation. We study what others overlook, and we build what the system doesn't offer.

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A new kind of research and community organisation.

LSR stands for Love, Strength, Rebellion. We're a Community Interest Company registered in 2025, built on the principle that the people most affected by broken systems are also the people best placed to study, understand, and change them.

We sit at the intersection of AI ethics, equitable research, and community care. Our methodology is lived experience, not assumption. Our frame is melanated — which means it honours all lenses, beginning from the one most often left out.

Founder Jermaine A. Johnson (The Architect of Soul and Systems) built this company from pressure, not privilege. South London. Jamaican roots. Neurodivergent. The work carries all of that — and transforms it.

Eye of a black panther illuminated by candlelight — still, present, watching

Two layers.
One company.

LSR operates through Research and Community simultaneously — not as separate divisions, but as two sides of the same practice.

01 — Research

Where intelligence
meets equity.

We build research methodologies and tools that centre the knowledge, experience, and dignity of marginalised communities. We study how AI affects human beings — especially Black and melanated people. We generate evidence that carries texture, not just numbers.

AI Ethics Equitable Narratives Melanated Data Qualitative Methods Care-Centric AI

02 — Community

Where the work
becomes real.

We facilitate men's wellness circles. We partner with community organisations doing frontline work. We bring research frameworks into spaces where they can actually help — not as academic export, but as tools built alongside the people using them.

Men's Wellness Circle Facilitation Community Partnerships Care Spaces Peer Research
"Innovation built from
pressure, not privilege."
Jermaine A. Johnson — Founder, LSR Media House CIC

The melanated
lens is the
origin point.

Every research tradition begins somewhere. Every technology is designed by someone. Most of the frameworks that govern our lives — in healthcare, finance, education, housing — were designed by people who did not look like us, from experiences that did not include us.

LSR's work starts from a different origin. The melanated lens doesn't mean exclusion — it means beginning from the perspective most often left at the door. From there, we build systems and methodologies that are more honest, more complete, and more useful for everyone.

This is not a diversity statement. It is a worldview. Humanitarian forward. Rooted in ancestry, alive in the present, building toward a future where no community has to fight for the legitimacy of their experience.

"We are not building for a niche. We are building from a truer starting point — one that honours all lenses by beginning from the one most frequently ignored."

Patience is a methodology.
So is care.

LSR — Building for the long arc

This is happening now.
Not conceptually.

Live programmes, active research, and published work — all running simultaneously.

01

Men's Wellness Circles

We facilitate regular wellness circles for Black men in South London — at Honor Oak and beyond. These are not therapy groups. They are structured, facilitated spaces where men can think together without performance. The data from these circles informs our research and our community practice simultaneously.

Live Programme

02

DNSM — Diasporic Narrative Simulation

Our flagship research methodology: choice-based interactive narrative that studies how people from diasporic communities navigate institutional spaces — banks, healthcare, housing, legal systems. Currently piloting Fragment One (The Bank) with NHS SEL Research Engagement Network partnership established for Fragment Two.

Active Research

03

Care-Centric AI Research

We are conducting original research into what happens when AI systems are designed from the beginning with care as the structural principle — not as an add-on, not as a safety layer. This includes the Claude-0 research thread, partnerships with Black AI UK, and developing frameworks for AI that begins from a more human starting point.

Active Research

04

The Spiral: A Quiet Rebellion

The book by Jermaine A. Johnson — a published work drawing together the intellectual threads of LSR: spiral thinking as methodology, the melanated lens as starting point, and the case for systems built from lived experience rather than extracted from it. Available now.

Published

We build carefully.
Not quickly.

LSR is a CIC — no shareholders, asset lock, designed for community benefit. Our partnerships are chosen for alignment, not volume. We are not scaling. We are deepening.

If you work in a space where this could matter — research, healthcare, education, housing, AI ethics, community funding — and something here has landed for you, we want to hear from you.

  • NHS SEL Research Engagement Network
  • Mabadiliko Academy CIC
  • Black AI UK
  • Published on Zenodo & ResearchGate

What a partnership enables

  • Access to DNSM research methodology and pilot programmes
  • Bespoke research design rooted in community experience
  • AI ethics consultation and care-centric framework development
  • Community circles and facilitation for your staff or participants

Organisation

LSR Media House CIC

Registration

CIC #16667580

Structure

Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee. No shareholders. Asset lock.

Founded

August 2025 — South London

Founder

Jermaine A. Johnson
The Architect of Soul and Systems

If something here
landed for you

reach out. We want to build carefully, not quickly. That means the right partners, the right timing, the right kind of work.