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
Duško Kuzovic
Assistant Professor and Researcher | Dhofar University
Duško Kuzović (Belgrade, 1967), Diploma engineer in architecture (1994), Magister of science (2006), Doctor of technical science (2013) at Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. Winner of „Yugoslav Borba`s charter for architecture” (coauthor, 1992), “Prize for architecture city of Novi...
Michael LaFosse
Vice President, Origamido, United States
Michael G. LaFosse has been working for over forty years as an origami artist, papermaker and author. Trained as a biologist, he finds his strongest inspiration in the natural world preferring to study his subjects in their natural habitats. He...
Nigel Holmes
Owner, Explanation Graphics, United States
Born in England in 1942, Nigel Holmes moved to the US in 1978. After 16 years at Time Magazine, he started his own information design business, Explanation Graphics. His latest book (of 12) is "The Bigger Book of Everything" (2020)....
Julia King
Research Fellow at LSE Cities and Unit Tutor at Architectural Association, London, UK
Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities and a design practitioner. Trained as an architect her research, design practice and teaching focus on infrastructure and public space in the context of rapid urbanisation, inequitable infrastructure developments and urban...
Gregorio Lubroth
Principal, TZOU LUBROTH ARCHITEKTEN, Austria
Gregorio Santamaria Lubroth was born in the United States in 1978. He received a bachelor's degree in history and fine arts from Wesleyan University in 2000 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale University in 2007. In 2000 he...
Hiroshi Kinoshita
Founder, Hiroshi Kinoshita and Associates, Tottori City, Japan
キノシタヒロシ 1976 鳥取県生まれ 2000 広島工業大学 卒業 (村上徹研究室) 2003 東京理科大学 大学院 修士課程修了 (小嶋一浩研究室) 2003 中央アーキ 共同主宰 2007 個人事務所 主宰 2013 鳥取市内の設計事務所 勤務 2018 キノシタヒロシ建築設計事務所 設立 2020 Gallery IHA 「『そこ』で考えた建築」produce & curation 長谷川逸子 に登壇
Gustavo Guimaraes
Owner/architect, Gustavo Guimaraes arquitectura & urbanismo, Portugal
Gustavo Guimarães Architecture & Urbanism is an international office focused on developing simple, enduring and thoughtful designs. Ideas have no scale, we work from abstract no scale projects to large city projects. Founded in 2010, studio is situated in the...
Sanjay Prakash
Principal, SHiFT Architects, India
Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is an architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. Over the years, he has integrated all his work with the practice of new urbanism and...
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