Darwin Living Lab Symposium 2025

Adapting to heat through community focussed solutions

The Darwin Living Lab 2025 Symposium provides an opportunity to share with the community its work to progress Darwin as a cool and thriving capital of the North. The symposium is an opportunity to bring together community, industry and government practitioners, to learn and exchange local knowledge on heat mitigation, urban planning and tropical design.  

The event details:

  • Date: 11 September 2025
  • Time: 8 AM to 12:30 PM
  • Venue: Festival Learning Room, CDU Danala – Education and Community Precinct, 54 Cavenagh Street, Darwin City, NT, 0800
  • Cost: free!
  • Registration: coming soon!

This years’ symposium has a focus on delivering heat mitigation outcomes for the people living, working and visiting Darwin – empowering people to take action to stay cool in Darwin’s warming wet-dry tropical climate. We will discuss topics such as:

  • Busting myths about human thermal comfort
  • The impacts of heat on health
  • What technologies can help us stay cool and how do we use them.

This page will be updated with detailed program and keynote speakers in the coming weeks

Soapbox Sessions: creating a cooler and more vibrant Darwin

As a finale to the Symposium we will host a ‘soapbox session’ where we encourage local and community voices to share their passion on how the public spaces of Darwin can be improved and made cooler and more vibrant.  The rules of the soapbox session are:

  • Register for the soapbox session via email: darwinlivinglab@csiro.au
  • Maximum of one presentation slide.
  • Maximum of 3 minutes for each soapbox presenter.