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
Mike Simpson
Global Application Lead, Signify
Mike Simpson has been in the lighting profession for over forty years in a variety of design roles and is currently the Global Application Lead at Signify (formerly Philips Lighting). He has worked with professional institutions in developing lighting guides...
Andrus Kõesaar
Partner, KOKO architects, Estonia
Andrus Kõresaar is the co-founder and partner at the largest Estonian architecture office KOKO architects, created in 2000. He is a flying creative mind in many ways. After the initial success as the designer of the Estonian pavilion at Hannover...
Carmen Torres González & Pau Sarquella Fabregas
Architect, Sarquella Torres Architects, Spain
Our young practice is nomadic, optimistic and enthusiastic. We believe utterly in the power of architecture to reflect and enhance joy. We have worked widely, but not only, in ephemeral installations, taking advantage of its open requirements to explore conditions...
Mateja Vehovar
Founding Partner, Vehovar & Jauslin, Switzerland
Slovenian born Mateja Vehovar graduated in architecture at ETH Zurich. She rounded off her education at Columbia University in New York, where her Master Thesis achieved the “Honor Award for Excellency in Design”. After working for offices such as Theo...
Cynthia Seinfeld Lemlig
Co-Founder / Main Architect, Seinfeld arquitectos/ Tandem Arquitectura, Lima, Peru
Graduated from the Universidad Ricardo Palma. Magister of Architecture with a mention in Housing from the UNI and co-founder of the AEA, an institution dedicated to reassessing the work of architects. She founded Seinfeld Arquitectos and Tandem Arquitectura with her...
Mateusz Adamczyk
Founding Partner, BUDCUD, Poland
Mateusz Adamczyk is a founding partner of BUDCUD - a contemporary studio from Poland operating within the fields of architecture and urban planning. Besides the design practice, architect's activities range from consulting challenging international projects, tutoring student workshops to taking...
Maurizio Crocco
CEO, Co-Founder Archabout
CEO and Co-founder of Arch@bout, Maurizio is an architect and academic with a longstanding career in research developed in the fields of architectural design, urban design at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at the university of Naples “Federico...
Rodrigo Quintella Messina
Founder, Messina| Rivas, Brazil
Rodrigo Quintella Messina Born in São Paulo (Brazil) in 1991. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), with academic exchange at Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2015) and...
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