“Jens Jensen Harmonious World” reveals the beginnings of the movement to set aside green spaces. Jensen left us a powerful legacy: pioneering the sustainable ecological movement, the conservation movement to save the Indiana Dunes and Starved Rock, setting aside the Cook County Forest Preserves; popularizing the Prairie Style of design, developing the field of Ecology, designing the first American Garden, making parks into playgrounds for everyday people and creating a utopian school. He was a great artist and leader. Jensen’s message of environmentalism is as fresh today as it was a century ago. Yet he is barely known out of landscape architecture circles. This film will tell his story. xxx

“Jens Jensen Harmonious World” reveals the beginnings of the movement to set aside green spaces.

Jensen left us a powerful legacy: pioneering the sustainable ecological movement, the conservation movement to save the Indiana Dunes and Starved Rock, setting aside the Cook County Forest Preserves; popularizing the Prairie Style of design, developing the field of Ecology, designing the first American Garden, making parks into playgrounds for everyday people and creating a utopian school. He was a great artist and leader.

Jensen’s message of environmentalism is as fresh today as it was a century ago. Yet he is barely known out of landscape architecture circles. This film will tell his story.

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