Submission Eligibility & Rules

Individuals or teams from any country are invited to enter. Multidisciplinary and multinational teams are encouraged

Submissions MUST include:

1. A vision of a just, peaceful, and sustainable Jerusalem. In both content and textual narrative, the following questions should be answered:
   1. What will Jerusalem be in the future? (i.e your detailed definition of “a just, peaceful, and sustainable” Jerusalem.)
   2. What is the Jerusalem in your vision (in spatial, physical, symbolic, interpretive, or other terms)?
   3. Why is that your vision?
   4. Under which of the following political scenarios, do you wish to make your entry:
      1. Jerusalem as capital of two states
      2. Jerusalem as capital of one state (specify which)
      3. Jerusalem as an international city (corpus separatum)
      4. others: specify
   5. In what ways does this scenario help make your Jerusalem a just, peaceful and sustainable city?
2. A well-specified project, and the track category to which it is directed and why. We also want to know:
   1. How this particular project and categorical entry point reflect or contribute to the realization of your vision of a just, peaceful, and sustainable Jerusalem by the year 2050.
   2. How your project sets us on the path to a future in which Jerusalem is just, peaceful, and sustainable.
   3. How your project fits into or departs from the contemporary reality of Jerusalem
3. The logic of your creative process. We want you to tell us:
   1. How, and with what dialogue or deliberation, you arrived at the final product.
   2. What is the causality between the project and the creation of a just, peaceful, sustainable, and humanist Jerusalem (no matter what the project is or how small the scale).

Criteria for Evaluation

The following criteria are merely guidelines, subject to amplification and interpretation by the jury. Submission will be assessed on the basis of:

• The potential to reconcile longstanding and seemingly intractable conflicts in unique and unexpected ways
• The potential to address or speak to concerns about the city in its entirety, and not simply one location or another
• The imaginative nature of the submission
• The extent to which the submission produces new knowledge about Jerusalem
• The professional, technical, or artistic quality of the project

Submission Tracks

In recognition that cities are comprised of multiple activities, entries are sought for four categories that address different aspects of urban life. Although projects may appropriately fall within more than one category, each entry must be submitted to only ONE track. Entries to all tracks MUST address the submission guidelines. Incomplete submissions will not be evaluated. The tracks are:

Prizes

5 TOP AWARDS:
At least one prizewinning entry will be selected in each category of submission, with a total of 5 awarded. Prizewinners will be given the opportunity to spend up to an academic semester in residence at MIT as Visiting Fellows, with all expenses paid, including travel, housing, and stipend. In the case of team submissions, no more than three individuals per winning entry will be hosted as fellows. While at MIT, all fellows will participate in university seminars and workshops with faculty and invited dignitaries to work towards the implementation of their design ideas.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
At least five honorable mentions will be selected. All winning entries and honorable mentions will be included in documented publications, exhibitions, and accounts of the competition.

Documents and Format

Documents

All final submissions should contain the following documents:

1. An Identification File (received with registration) with contact details for each team member and a contact person. The file includes your registration number. Please attach in a sealed envelope and write on top of it the word: Identification.
2. An Abstract of no more than 300 words, in a sealed envelope (no personal identification should appear on the envelope or in the text).
3. Completed Project (for more criteria, see Eligibility & Rules).

Format

1. Projects could be submitted in one or more of the following ways:
   1. For design entries, 4 A-1 boards (Horizontal, Landscape format) Measurements: 83 x 56 cm or 32.7 x 22 inches.
   2. For text entries, no more than 30 pages single spaced, A-4 paper, vertical.
   3. For Video/DVD/CD entries, length no more than 15 minutes (and must be transmitted digitally).
2. All submissions, even arts and design entries, must be accompanied by some narrative text.
3. Language: Submissions must be in English (although for dissemination purposes a translation in Arabic and/or Hebrew is recommended).
4. Details about how and where to submit final projects will be available on this website at the close of Question Deadline Round II.

 http://web.mit.edu/justjerusalem/

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The competition's nine-member jury includes a Palestinian scholar and a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem.

Winners of four categories on the rebuilding of Jerusalem, from renovating buildings to revamping its economy, and a fifth floating category will each receive a $50,000 (€37,450) MIT fellowship.

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