The Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) has launched IMAGINE, a new initiative which seeks to encourage young creative minds to share their vision and submit designs for the Genesis Prize award trophy. Through the competition, GPF aims to engage emerging artists, designers and architects around the world with the themes of the Genesis Prize.

The Genesis Prize is a $1 million annual award, honoring individuals who have attained excellence and international renown in their chosen professions, and who inspire others through their engagement and dedication to the Jewish community and/or the State of Israel. In 2014, the Prize was awarded to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and in 2015 to actor and peace activist Michael Douglas.

GPF has recruited a world-class jury of 20 international judges from the US, UK, Israel, Scandinavia, Russia and Canada. Tate Gallery Chairman Lord John Browne will chair the Selection Committee, while Pushkin Museum Co-Chairman Petr Aven will serve as deputy chair. Other prominent members of the jury include MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry, New York Jewish Museum Director Claudia Gould, London Jewish Museum Director Abigail Morris, Whitney Museum Director Adam D. Weinberg, Garage Museum Founder Dasha Zhukova and prominent artists, architects and designers such as Daniel Libeskind, Phyllis Lambert and Ron Arad.

The competition is open to all individuals currently enrolled as students and to emerging artists between the ages of 18 and 35. Participants in the competition must register at www.genesisprize.org/design by October 15 and submit their designs by December 31.

IMAGINE is seeking submissions that meet the following criteria:

• The design must be unique and of high quality.
• The design must clearly reflect the mission of the Prize and the connection between the design and the mission must be explained in the entrant’s written statement.
• The design must be technically feasible to produce.

The first place design will receive a prize of $10,000 and will be announced by summer 2016.

The competition will include a four stage process that begins by working with external experts to determine which projects are feasible to produce and therefore eligible to advance to the next stage of review. Once submissions have gone through the feasibility review, they are submitted to a panel of international judges, who will review and score the designs based on the selection criteria and their own impressions of quality and originality. The designs will then be posted online for public voting. The designs with the most votes will advance to the final stage, during which the designs are presented to a smaller group of judges, the selection committee, who will select the winner and runners up to recommend to the Genesis Prize Foundation Board of Directors.