Become a juror
Judge the best design work from architects and designers across the globe, and help them improve with your invaluable feedback.
What is a juror on UNI?
A juror at UNI is someone who has experience evaluating creative work and can provide constructive feedback to participants. As a juror, you will be responsible for reviewing entries, scoring them based on the evaluation criteria, and providing thoughtful comments that help designers improve their work.
Constructive inputs
When you are on the jury panel, share valuable inputs to the projects you are evaluating. Your experience based feedback has a great potential to drive change for those who are eager to learn.
World class problems
Competitions at UNI engage with different kind of problems every time. From designing for outer space to designing for prisons, be on the judging panel to review creative solutions.
International experience
With participation from around 150+ countries, rest assured that you get to engage with diverse solutions. Being on this jury is a great way to learn as well.
Why be a juror at UNI?
Being a juror is a privilege that comes with the responsibility of shaping the future of design. Your feedback can make a lasting impact on emerging designers and help them grow professionally.
Flexible timeline for evaluation
We present you with shortlisted entries for the competition you will be judging. The evaluation process can be flexibly completed between a period of 3 weeks.
Friendly interface
A simple dashboard with detailed analytics to access all the projects, and no emailing of entries or heavy downloads. The evaluation dashboard is compatible to various devices including mobile devices as well.
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A token of honor
Jurors have always been at the pristine spot in design education. Practically nothing can be above than a badge of juror in a competition. To mark the position, your jury role is credited on the competition page and on your UNI profile, and you receive a certificate of recognition for each panel you sit on.
Media visibility and recognition
While you provide your invaluable inputs to the participants, we ensure to give visibility of your work and your profile to over a million annual visitors on our platform, and to a community of 270,000+ architects and designers.
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Our Jurors
Join a distinguished panel of design experts from around the world
Michael Spight
Director, TAG Architects, Australia
TAG Architects were established in 2001 as a design-focused practice specializing in high quality, innovative and environmentally and socially responsible projects. We create well designed, appropriately scaled architecture which responds to the client brief and contributes to the built environment...
Kazuma Yamao
Founding Partner, Waiwai, Japan
Architect. Founding partner of waiwai. Born in 1978 in Kyoto, Japan. Graduated Kyoto University, received the first prize of diploma in 2001. Completed Master degree of the University of Tokyo Graduated School in 2004. Joined CAt (C+A tokyo) in 2004....
Asaf T. Mann
Partner Architect, Mann Shinar Architects, Israel
Asaf T. Mann is a Partner Architect at Mann Shinar Architects, one of Israel’s leading architectural firms, leading the design and construction of award winning projects such as the recently opened Ramon Int’l Airport in Timna, Israel; the National Library...
Janet Salem
Programme Officer, Innovation for Circular Economy at United Nations
Over 13 years working in circular economy and sustainable lifestyles at the United Nations, I’ve achieved results in mobility, eCommerce and retail, buildings, startups, tourism, food systems and tertiary education. love to developing sustainability strategies that capture market opportunities. I’m...
Emre Arolat
Founding Partner & Principal, Emre Arolat Architecture, United States
Emre Arolat is the design partner of EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, founded with Gonca Paşolar in 2004, as the continuation of his architectural practice that began in 1987 when he started as an associate designer at his parents’ studio, Arolat Architects....
Elena Sacco
Associate architect, DAP studio, Italy
Elena Sacco is the associate - founder of DAP studio / elena sacco - paolo danelli. The attention to detail, the dialogue with the context and the ability to regenerate and giving new life to spaces allowed DAP studio to...
Shih-Fu Peng
Director, heneghan peng architects, Ireland
Shih-Fu Peng is an architect and co-founder of heneghan peng architects, a practice working with landscape, urban planning and architecture with offices in Dublin and Berlin. Shih-Fu was born in New York and has lived in UK, Hawaii, Taiwan, Singapore,...
Ellen Lupton
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper Hewitt, United states
Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her exhibitions include “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” “How Posters Work,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Lupton...
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