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.
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.
Our Jurors
Join a distinguished panel of design experts from around the world
Ignacio Peydro
Partner / Principal, DOSIS, Spain
Ignacio Peydro is an architect registered in Spain and United Kingdom. He is a chartered member of RIBA. He studied Architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) and at the Bartlett in London, obtained a post professional advanced master...
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...
Femi Olaiya
Partner, Urban & Contemporary Architects Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria
UCA – Urban & Contemporary Architects Ltd. is a growing architectural practice based in Lagos, Nigeria with a team of young, vibrant-minded Architects, Designers, Artists, and innovators of combined experience of over 45 years. The steady growth and expansion of...
Ishan Grover
Design Director, Karan Grover & Associates, India
Design Director at KGA with learning in the Liberal Arts and Masters in Architecture from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. KGA as a practice has been passionately advocating the need to look at culture and heritage for clues to the...
Ludwig Godefroy
Founder and Principal, Ludwig Godefroy Architecture, Mexico
Graduated from the school of architecture de la ville et des territoires - marne la vallée , Paris 2004 : Leeser Architecture - New York 2005 : EMBT, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue - Barcelona 2007 : Rem Koolhaas OMA -...
Christopher Gammons
Principal, HMWhite, United States
Christopher brings with him more than 15 years of landscape architecture, site engineering and construction implementation and management experience. Upon his completion of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies Program at Rutgers University, Christopher pursued the integration of bold landscape...
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...
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