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
Siegfried Hansen
Photographer, Siegfried Hansen, Germany
The German street photographer Siegfried Hansen, who was born 1961 in Meldorf (near Hamburg), started his photographic career with travel and landscape photography. After studying the works of famous documentary photographers such as Andre Kertesz, Ernst Haas and Ray K....
Sam Olin
Architect | LEED AP Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
LEED Accredited Professional; Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture; U.S. Green Building Council, Savannah Branch Leadership Group
Emmanuel Blamont
Senior Design Partner, Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Emmanuel Blamont is Senior Design Partner & Director of External Relations at Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Emmanuel Blamont graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1984. In 1977 to 1985, he collaborated with Jean Nouvel firstly as an architectural...
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...
Iban Carpintero Lopez
Director, EXIT Architects, Madrid, Spain
EXIT architects is an architectural office founded in 2000 in Madrid. Our work seeks the optimum integration of all the circumstances around each project, with special focus on the client needs, the relation between buildings and city, the sustainability and...
Andy Nettleton
Director/Co-founder, Dive Architects, Sweden
Andy studied at Leeds and the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. Following working experience in Oporto, Berlin, Paris, and London, in 2001 together with Ia Hjärre, he founded Dive Architects in London. At Dive we believe creative, high-quality architecture...
Maria Camila Godoy
Arquitecta, Estudio Maar arqs., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estudio de arquitectira de la cuidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Conformado por 3 arquitectos egresados de la Facultad de arquitectura de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Docentes en sicha institucion desde el año 2008 hasta la actualidad....
Louis Thompson
Chief Executive Officer, Nomadic Resorts, Mauritius
As a LEED AP, green building and landscape design professional specializing in the realization of eco-resorts, tented camps and high end residential villa developments; Louis has 10 years experience of designing, building and operating high-end, mixed use development projects in...
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