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
Paulo Merlini
Founder, Paulo Merlini architects, Portugal
Born November 1981 -Soares dos Reis Secondary School(1995/1999) -Graduated in Architecture at FAULP(2000/2006) -Attends the last year of the Erasmus course in Italy at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (2005/2006) -Internship for OARSN at Cannatá&Fernandes office(2006/2007) -Begins a PhD...
Phnam Bagley
Founding Partner & Creative Director, Nonfiction, United States
Phnam Bagley is a French Industrial Designer and Space Architect with 15 years of experience designing hardware in audio, wearables, biotech & healthcare, luxury goods, transportation, sports and aerospace. She has designed and led teams at design consultancies like IDEO,...
Amos Goldreich
Director, Amos Goldreich Architecture, United Kingdom
Following graduation from the Architectural Association in London in 1999, Amos worked for a variety of high profile London-based design practices, including David Chipperfield, Stanton Williams, Haworth Tompkins and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Diverse projects in the UK and abroad...
Francisco Bernés
Founder, Workshop, Diseño y Construcción, México
Francisco José Bernés Aranda, nació en la ciudad de San Francisco de Campeche, México. Es egresado de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. En 2010 estudió en la Universidad Tecnológica de Graz, en Austria como parte...
Branka Juras
Architect/Owner, Architectural Design Studio Branka Juras, Croatia
Awareness of the profound connection between mankind and nature is the very essence of my approach towards every professional challenge. Being in tune with the organic world in particular surroundings, I create designs that are respectfully linked with the nature...
Karthik Dondeti
Founder Architect, Voxelscapes, Bangalore
B.Arch., M.Arch. (Design & Technology) GSD, Harvard University A practicing architect and founder of Voxelscapes - an architecture and creative coding studio based in Bangalore. He had worked with institutes in the fields of Building Technology and Design Computation which...
Wolfgang Hardt
Partner, Burckhardt+Partner AG, Switzerland
Wolfgang Hardt completed an apprenticeship as a joiner and draftsman. Afterwards he studied Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany, where he was awarded his degree. Later he then completed a master's degree in “Architecture and Context”, graduating...
Erick Velasco Farrera
Lead Architect / Co-founder, SANGRAD+AVP, Croatia
Born in 1980 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Graduated at the UAA Architecture Faculty with honors. In 2007 he started the architectural practice AVP architects. He has been recognized with several national and international awards (Medal for Architecture, VIKTOR KOVAČIĆ, VLADIMIR NAZOR,...
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