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
Robert Kranenborg
Director, Forging Matters Ltd, United Kingdom
Born in Amsterdam, 1975. Trained in artistic and traditional hot metalwork through a number of apprenticeships, 1995 to 2000. Partner in the last business until setting up Forging Matters Ltd in 2008. Forging Matters has grown into a business specialising...
CARLOS CHACÓN PÉREZ
Founder, DVCH DEVILLARCHACON Arquitectos, Mexico
Carlos Chacon is founder member of DVCH DeVillarCHacon Architects. DVCH was established in Madrid in 2OO8 and is currently present in Madrid, Mexico City and Taichung. The office work is focused on providing architectural solutions able to stablish a dialogue...
Nicko Elliott
Principal, Civilian, United States
Nicko Elliott is the principal and co-founder of CIVILIAN. He was previously Creative Partner at the real estate development firm Macro Sea, where he led the design of innovative living and working development projects including Newlab in Brooklyn, and CIEE'S...
Namrata Tidke
Senior Design Associate, MuseLAB, India
A graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design, Namrata is fascinated by humanitarian design and truly believes that architecture is a social art. Her professional years in New York and India have exposed her to a wide spectrum of...
Madhav Raman
Founding Partner, Anagram Architects, India
Madhav is an architect and urbanist. He co-founded an architectural practice in partnership with Vaibhav Dimri after they graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi in 2001. Formally established in 2004, Anagram Architects is internationally recognized as amongst...
Josef Sartagh
Founder, Spacearchitect.org, Germany
Josef Sartagh is a German architect, researcher, and lecturer on an international level. He studied architecture in Germany and started developing and completing construction projects in northern Germany independently in 2015. Besides designing, his academic work includes research in topics...
Alex Hanazaki
Creative Director, Alex Hanazaki Landscape, Brazil
Leading a studio in São Paulo (Brazil), in tune with his high sense of perfectionism and aesthetics, Hanazaki is an internationally recognized landscape architect. For him, landscaping is also an important part of a better quality of life. He creates...
Masoud Akbarzadeh
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Masoud Akbarzadeh is a designer with a unique academic background and experience in architectural design, computation, and structural engineering. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in Structures and Advanced Technologies and the Director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL)....
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