Table of Contents

Part 1. The Operational Reality of Co-design in LLSAs

1. The Living Lab: A Reality Belonging to a Collective History.

2. Running Co-design: Collaborative Projects and Co-design Sessions.

3. Problems and Methods of Involving Users in Co-development Projects.

4. Involving Industrialists.

Part 2. Challenges of Co-design and Independent Living

5. Co-design: Methodologies for Investigating, Developing and Sharing Knowledge in View of New Solutions for Future Use.

6. Co-design and Health Technology Assessment: Controlling and Establishing Reproducibility.

7. The Purposes and Reality
 of Collective Appropriation of Social Innovation.

Part 3. Diverse Perspectives on Co-design

8. Critique of the Living Lab Approach.

9. Co-design Methods.

10. Living Lab Approach and Learning.

11. Other Views.

Part 4. The LLSAs’ and the Forum’s Value Added

12. LLSA Solutions.

13. LLSA Typologies.

About the Author

Robert Picard is a health referent of the General Council of Economy (CGE). He actively participated in the development of living lab approach in health autonomy on French territory which he theorized and formalized in several publications. The Forum LLSA is the realization of this background work started in 2008, which today is worth it to sit in many decision-making bodies of public authority in which it bears the living lab approach.