All higher education institutions are now being challenged to accommodate the research and learning goals of individual departments while balancing the needs of converging interdisciplinary programs. In this session, presenters deliver a case study of the new Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan to demonstrate design solutions creating behavior shifts in support of interdisciplinarity and program convergence. They illustrate how the institution’s ‘Theory-Make-Test’ research drives the design of shared learning spaces, makerspaces, and active learning labs to generate idea exchange, while still retaining specialized spaces for intense research and individual program requirements.