Welcome to the Systemic Investing Research and Knowledge Community (SIRKC) 

This community emerged from the inaugural Systemic Investing convening held at MIT from January 29 - February 1, 2024, co-hosted by the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, TWIST, TransCap, FEST, CSP, Meridian, The ImPact, and a broad group of researchers and practitioners.

 

What began as a small experiment on a shared Miro board, created as a minimum viable product, was designed to support a set of core needs within the community. These included developing a shared view of the research landscape, surfacing research questions, connecting researchers, sharing outputs, and identifying potential empirical contexts for future work.​

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Since then, the community has evolved into an ongoing network that convenes regularly through online meetings to explore emerging research themes, share work in progress, and build relationships across institutions and disciplines. The objectives of this community are to:

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• Build a space for multi-disciplinary conversations, diverse perspectives, and methods to converge on systemic investing

• Encourage new lines of research, while critiquing/challenging ongoing work to ensure relevance and impact

• Build shared knowledge of each other's work to enable self-organizing differentiation of research agendas and promote meaningful collaboration

• Advance actionable insights and strategies that drive investments toward achieving a just and sustainable world​

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Between November 2024 and December 2025, MIT stewarded the community in collaboration with the Deep Transitions Lab (DTL). Beginning in 2026, stewardship continues as a shared effort between MIT, DTL, and TransCap.

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This website serves as a lightweight home for the community, offering orientation, shared intentions, and access to key outputs, while the community itself continues to be shaped through participation and practice.