The Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) at the Penn State Stuckeman School is the site of transdisciplinary experimentation, production, and collaboration using Extended Reality (XR) technologies. It also serves as a space for presentations and testing, supporting both design teaching and research. The mission of the IEL is to expand the understanding of immersion — cultural, spatial, material, and virtual — and to explore immersive hybrid, physical and digital, design workflows that enable embodied experiences of the built environment. Yasmine Abbas serves as the current director of the IEL.