IDeALL: Exploring the Way to Integrate Design for All within Living Labs Isabelle Vérilhac 1 , Marc Pallot 2 , Francesc Aragall 3 1 Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne, France 2 CEC, Nottingham University Business School, UK & ESoCE-Net, Rome, Italy 3 Design for All Foundation, Barcelona, Spain Abstract On the one hand, new paradigms, such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2004) as well as Living Labs operating as a User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009), promote a more proactive role of users in the R&D process. However, a number of existing methods for involving users are abundantly described in the literature as reported by Pallot and colleagues (2010) while proposing a domain landscape of research and design methods supporting user involvement in R&D. On the other hand, the Design Creative City Living Lab has deployed the LUPI ® methodology (Vérilhac, 2011) for involving all stakeholders, including users, at the earlier stage in opening a specific design lab. The LUPI ® main strength consists in the pro- activeness on the value creation chain from foresight up to the market (Jégou, 2009). Finally, there is the Design for All (DfA) approach and HUMBLES design method (Aragall, 2012) where products and services are adapted to the needs and wishes of all people, regardless of their differences. This paper briefly explores these different methods and tentatively tries to provide criteria for selecting design methods according to project specific aspects in integrating the DfA approach to meet the needs of all users whatever their differences. Keywords Living Labs, User Driven Open Innovation, User Centred Design, User Cocreation, Design for All 1 Introduction Today, nearly 300 Living Labs are members of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). While, they are mainly located within the enlarged European Union, a growing number of Living Labs appear in other regions such as South Africa, South-East Asia and South America. All of them have the goal to involve users at the earlier stage of the R&D process not only as observed subjects but rather as a participative force for co-creating value. A living Lab (LL) is an open research and innovation ecosystem, often based on a specific territory, involving a large diversity of stakeholders, such as user communities (application pull), solution developers (technology push), research labs, local authorities and policy makers as well as investors. While the LL ecosystem, through openness, multicultural and multidisciplinary aspects, conveys the necessary level of diversity, it enables the emergence of breakthrough ideas, concepts and scenarios leading to adoptable innovative solutions. A LL Empowers user communities like it is done with Web 2.0 (Frappaolo & Keldsen, 2008). A LL allows enterprises, especially SMEs, and users/citizens either as entrepreneurs or communities to get access to technology infrastructure as well as science, design and innovation services. The main objectives consist to explore new ideas and concepts, experiment new artefacts and evaluate breakthrough scenario that could be turned into successful innovations. According to Vérilhac (2011), Saint-Etienne “Cité du design”, was created in 2005 by the City and the Metropolitan District of Saint-Etienne. The concept of the Design Creative City Living Lab (DCC-LL) consists in exploring and achieving policies and business goals related to urban services innovation using an iterative model of stakeholder co-design. DCC-LL sets up,