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
Jonathon Kemnitzer
Principal, KEM STUDIO, United States
Jonathon Kemnitzer is a co-founder and principal of KEM STUDIO, a design firm that fuses Architecture + Industrial Design. His close observation of everyday life and the way people interact with space and objects constantly informs his work. He is...
Gaetano Ceschia
Partner, Calvi Ceschia Viganò architetti associati, Italy
CALVI CESCHIA VIGANÒ ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS was born from the experience of three professionals, Marco Calvi, Gaetano Ceschia, and Andrea Viganò, with the aim of networking different professional and territorial skills. The goal is to create a flexible structure capable of...
Jaap Wiedenhoff
Partner, Senior Consultant, ABT, Netherlands
With an education in aerospace technology I was and still am, after 30 years, kind of an outsider in building engineering design. Whereas the typical approach to engineering design, my approach over this period has always been from physics to...
Miguel Angel Lira
Founding Partner & Co-Director, lira.velasco.arquitectos, Mexico
Architect and Postulant to Master in Philosophy with the thesis: "The aesthetics of the music of Iannis Xenakis in the architecture of the twentieth century" both by the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has collaborated in the offices Serrano, Serrano, Nava; Albin...
Mathilde Marengo
IAAC Head of Studies, Senior Faculty, PhD Supervisor, Research Methodology Advisor
Mathilde Marengo is an Australian – French – Italian Architect, with a PhD in Urbanism, whose research focuses on the Contemporary Urban Phenomenon, its integration with technology, and its implications on the future of our planet. Within today’s critical environmental,...
Neil Dusheiko
Director, Neil Dusheiko Architects, United Kingdom
Neil studied architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa graduating in 1994 with distinction. Following his studies, he worked for various practices in Sydney, Australia until moving to London in 1998. He became a UK registered architect...
Sepehr Mousavi
Sustainability Strategist, Plantagon
During 2018, Sepehr Mousavi has been enlisted as one of the '50 world’s most influential global smart city leaders', one of the 'Sweden’s top 33 sustainability personas' and claimed no.19 of the top 101 'Swedish super talents' list published by...
Juan Pablo Aschner
Principal Architect, Juan Pablo Aschner, Colombia
Colombian/Italian architect who holds a postgraduate master’s degree with honors in architecture and a Ph.D. in art and architecture. He codirected the award-winning film Euritmia and has authored or coauthored six books and numerous published articles and book chapters. Director...
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