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
Stephen Van Dyck
Partner, LMN Architects, United States
Stephen is a Partner at LMN Architects in Seattle, where he leads the design and delivery of a variety of projects ranging from large scale public assembly, civic infrastructure and spaces for higher education. Stephen’s design approach seeks to create...
Nikhil Mohan
Principal architect, Thought parallels architecture, Calicut, India
The urge to be relevant, an absence of a monotonous style, and attention to detail in design define the ‘thought parallels’ design ethos. 'Thought parallels' is built on its individuality. It is not a colossal practice, but a boutique firm...
Lance Hosey
Chief Impact Officer with HMC, San Diego, CA,
Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is an acclaimed architect, author, advocate, and public speaker whose work focuses on ways to improve the impact of design. Currently he serves as a Principal and a Design Director with Gensler, where he also...
Mariam Hassan
Architectural Engineering Dept. College of Engineering
MAS in Architecture, Methodologies in Architectural and Urban Design Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Switzerland, 2003, and B.Sc. in Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 2001 Research Assistant, Joint venture project between the departments...
Rolf Ockert
Principal Architect, ROAR - Rolf ockert. Architect., Australia
At Rolf Ockert. Architect. we continuously aim to find individual and optimised solutions for any design task we can get our hands and minds on. Having lived and worked in Europe, Asia and Australia, and having traveled the world extensively,...
François Valentiny
Prof. Mag. Arch., Valentiny hvp architects, Luxembourg
1953 Born in Remerschen (LU) 1970 Completion of carpentry apprentice in Virton (BE) 1975-1976 Architecture Studies at the University of Nancy (FR) 1980 Diploma Magister architecturae with distinction from the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (AT) 1980 François Valentiny...
Oleg Shapiro
Partner, Wowhaus bureau, Russia
Partner in the architectural bureau Wowhaus (Moscow, Russia); Candidate of Architecture, Co-author of a training course on the design of public spaces at the University of Architecture MARCH; city activist. The author of more than 60 architectural projects in Moscow...
Pierre de Wit & Maud André
Architects, dA architectes, Belgium
dA architectes was created in 2017 following the desire of its two founding architects to practice their profession with meaning and pleasure. This assumed 'naivety' is far from trivial, it fundamentally stimulates the development of each of the projects. Maud...
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