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
Pooya Baktash
Co-Founder, PARTISANS, Canada
Born in Tehran, Iran. Pooya Baktash studied Architecture at the University of Azad in Tehran, Iran, where he also worked at renowned architecture firm EBA, recipient of the Aga Khan Award. In 2007, he came to Canada to pursue a...
Francesca Silvi
Director, SASI Studio
Francesca Silvi is an Architect and Engineer with extensive experience in Architecture, Real Estate, and Design. She previously worked as Senior Architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, after having worked at Foster and Partners, 3D Reid, Coffice. Francesca holds a MArch...
Javier Gonzalez Rivero
Partner / Managing Director, 100architects, China
Javier is currently, and for the last 6 years, Partner & Managing Director of the Shanghai-based office 100 Architects. Before that, he worked 4 years in China, leading projects as Project Manager at RTA-Office (Shanghai) and ADOS - Architecture &...
Jeonghoon Lee
Principal Architect, JOHO Architecture, South Korea
Jeonghoon Lee was born in 1975 and graduated from SungKyunKwan University majoring in architecture and philosophy. He was awarded the scholarship by the Korean government in 2003 and went over to France, where he acquired the master degree in the...
Manuel Herrera
Partner/Architect, TALLER DIEZ 05, Mexico
Manuel Herrera was born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1966; he did his undergraduate at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) and a master in Architecture at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles; He has received a three year scholarship from the The National Foundation...
Grigor Grigoryan
Serial entrepreneur, Founder of BeeGraphy Corp. and Kanri Innovation Technologies, ex-TotalEnergies
Grigor Grigoryan is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience in energy and technology. Known for turning ideas into reality, he ensures feasible concepts are brought to life. As the Founder and CEO of BeeGraphy Corp., Grigor has...
Thomas CORBASSON
Architect Leader, CHARTIER-CORBASSON ARCHITECTES, France
After working for Jean Nouvel agency, Thomas Corbasson partnered with Karine Chartier in 2000 to found the agency Chartier-Corbasson architects, who won the albums of the young architecture in 2002. Their first public project, the Maison de l'architecture en Ile-de-France,...
EunSeok Lee
Architect D.P.L.G, Kyunghee university / Atelier KOMA, South Korea
Received a B.A. in Architecture from HongIk University (1987) and a Licence of Architects D.P.L.G. from École d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (1991) Ph D. in the history of Art from École d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (1996). Won the Millennium Gate competition of Korea in...
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