Jacob Boswell
Fulbright Scotland Distinguished Scholar Fellow, January - July 2026
Home institution: Ohio State University
Jake Boswell is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at The Ohio State University. His work centers on the entanglement of cultural, technological, and natural systems in the production of designed and vernacular landscapes, with a focus on climate modification, climate change, and energy. With a background in landscape architecture, city planning, and cultural anthropology, Boswell pursues this work through a hybrid practice centered on historical inquiry and design speculation. His writing has been published globally and his design works have received recognition in numerous international design competitions.
Project title: Community-based distributed energy resources in Scotland: a built environment inventory
Jake’s Fulbright project will investigate and document the wide variety of community-based distributed energy resource (DER) projects that have been built in Scotland since the creation of the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) Act in 2010. While in Scotland he will document a cross section of these community-based energy projects to better understand the forms they have taken and decision making around their design. Currently, we know very little about the physical form these projects take, or how that form can be understood in relation to their specific social and environmental context. Jake seeks to produce a series of case studies on exemplary models that situate the functional and economic aspects of each project within its discrete social and environmental context.