  If this movie doesn’t play please use this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWppu9kuJE Jensen’s Story In the early 20th century, visionary landscape architect Jens Jensen was green before the word ecology even existed. He lead and won early battles to conserve quickly disappearing native land including what would become the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Highly ethical and inspired by nature, he created landscapes for Chicago’s working poor filled with “clearings” to clear the mind of the mania of the city. His initial triumph, the “American Garden,” was designed to express America’s natural democracy and to give Chicago a style all its own. Jensen became the most popular landscape architect in America next to Frederick Law Olmstead, designing hundreds of landscapes for public parks, wealthy industrialists, schools, public housing, roads and finally his own utopian school, The Clearing. "Jens Jensen Harmonious World" is a documentary for PBS by Carey Lundin and Mark Frazel of Viva Lundin Productions, based in Chicago. Jensen’s message of CONSERVATION is as fresh today as it was a century ago. Yet he is barely known out of landscape architecture circles. The film will help Americans better appreciate what landscape architecture is and how the early fight for conservation was won through design and vision as much as politics. We need a little more help to bring Jensen’s inspirational story to the world. Here’s how you can support the project. Visit our Facebook Page for regular updates.

If this movie doesn’t play please use this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWppu9kuJE

Jensen’s Story

In the early 20th century, visionary landscape architect Jens Jensen was green before the word ecology even existed.

He lead and won early battles to conserve quickly disappearing native land including what would become the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Highly ethical and inspired by nature, he created landscapes for Chicago’s working poor filled with “clearings” to clear the mind of the mania of the city. His initial triumph, the “American Garden,” was designed to express America’s natural democracy and to give Chicago a style all its own.

Jensen became the most popular landscape architect in America next to Frederick Law Olmstead, designing hundreds of landscapes for public parks, wealthy industrialists, schools, public housing, roads and finally his own utopian school, The Clearing.

"Jens Jensen Harmonious World" is a documentary for PBS by Carey Lundin and Mark Frazel of Viva Lundin Productions, based in Chicago.

Jensen’s message of CONSERVATION is as fresh today as it was a century ago. Yet he is barely known out of landscape architecture circles.

The film will help Americans better appreciate what landscape architecture is and how the early fight for conservation was won through design and vision as much as politics.

We need a little more help to bring Jensen’s inspirational story to the world. Here’s how you can support the project.

Visit our Facebook Page for regular updates.