The infrastructures beyond the diversity and redistribution of actors' roles within Living Labs

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Living Labs are developing in widely divere innovation domains. They namely invite to question the various actors' roles and their making processes. Such roles rely on the actions they perform within the innovation process. What are, beyond the methods of participation, the infrastructures (e.g. collaboration platform, communication supports) that help or hinder possibilities for actors to take or make their own roles? Our case study of an agricultural LL in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France) showed that an ambiguity on users' roles was maintained by the created and existing information infrastructures. Among these, we describe the farmers' workshops, and the information sharing paths, both limiting the ownership of the process by nonincumbent actors. Complementarily to the distinctions of various roles in litterature, we contribute to relate potentially neglected aspects of the LivingLab management (because not judged strategical) to the room for manoeuver and possibilities for expected actors' roles to be built and performed.