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
Katerina Borodina
CO-OWNER AND CHIEF ARCHITECT, MIYAO, Russia
Katerina Borodina (1991), a Russian architect who founded Miyao Design Studio in 2018 together with Sergei Piterskii . Miyao is a multidisciplinary design studio from Moscow specializing in interior design, development of visual concepts, art direction and branding. «In our...
Jonathan Barnbrook
Owner, barnbrook ltd, United Kingdom
Since graduating in 1990 from Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, Jonathan Barnbrook has developed a multifaceted practice that includes activism, graphic design, typeface design, industrial design, and motion graphics. In graphics, he...
Ales Znidarsic
Principal Architect, Multiplan arhitekti, Slovenia
Ales Znidarsic (1969) studied architecture at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture from where he graduated in 1997. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked as an assistant at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, collaborating on one of the core...
Felipe Ferrer
Partner, V.Oid, lima, Peru
Felipe Ferrer Cárdenas (Lima, 1978) has worked between Lima and New York where he received a M.S. in Advanced Architecture Design at Columbia University graduating with honors receiving the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize with his project C.Lens. He then...
Michel Lefevre
Partner architect, Label architecture, Belgium
Label architecture is an architectural practice based in Brussels, a city the three founding partners, Jean-Didier Bergilez (b. 1974), Michel Lefèvre (b. 1978) and Thibaut Rome (b. 1977) call home. All three are graduates from the La Cambre Institute of...
Faith Okuma
Principal, Surroundings Studio, United States
Faith Okuma is a principal of Surroundings Studio in Santa Fe, NM. Surroundings Studio is founded on planning and designing exceptional projects that creatively address environmental, social and fiscal challenges and opportunities. Faith’s career has included projects across the nation...
Michael Morris
Partner, SEArch+, New York, USA
Michael Morris is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Architecture and Parsons School of Design Environmental Design and Fulbright recipient. With his late partner-and- wife Yoshiko Sato, Morris founded the New York City-based Morris Sato Studio Architecture in...
Puran Kumar
Principal Architect, Studio PKA, Mumbai, India
Puran Kumar – Principal at Studio PKA – Believes in creating spaces that exude a strong sense of place and identity. Now more than 25 years into the practice, Puran continues to explore and adopt fresh, innovative, and exciting new...
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