A central challenge for Living Labs (LLs) is how they connect to, and embed learnings, in formal transport and mobility planning structures and practices. This article focuses on a workshop-series, established by researchers within a LL centred research programme, to create a bridge between the LL and its municipal partner. We explore the narratives that emerged about citizen roles in the workshop-series. Results suggest that there is not one dominant framing of citizen roles, but a spectrum of narratives exist in tandem. However, citizens are seldom framed as taking part in the final stages of decision-making processes, even if their input is regarded as important. Our findings also show that a workshop-series can be used to extend the scope of LL methodologies to actively engage public actors. LL-adjacent workshops can be viewed as inter-boundary spaces which open a window to the complexities of ordinary transport and mobility planning processes, as well as a space for researchers to actively work with embedding learnings from LLs.