Darwin Living Lab Symposium 2025: Adapting to heat through community focussed solutions

The Darwin Living Lab 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 CSIRO-led Darwin Living Lab (DLL) was established as part of the Darwin City Deal and is a 10-year collaborative partnership (2019-29) between the Commonwealth Government, Northern Territory Government and City of Darwin. The partnership brings together research, government, industry and the community to co-create solutions to Darwin's most pressing urban challenges that include adapting to a warming climate and creating a more liveable and sustainable city.

The focus of this years' symposium is on identifying practical heat mitigation opportunities for 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.

Pricing

• Free

Dates and Times

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Darwin Living Lab

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Program and keynote speakers

The Darwin Living Lab website will be updated with final program and keynote speakers.

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.

Image: Darwin Living Lab Symposium 2023

Find out more

• The Darwin Living Lab website