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
Ana Julia Carvajal / Alejandra de la Cerda
Cofounder - CEO, POLEN ARQUITECTURA DE PAISAJE, Mexico
Polen is a design office located in Mexico City. Our work is focused on landscape design. Therefore, a multidisciplinary team of industrial designers, architects, landscapers, agronomists and gardeners intervene raising their concerns and knowledge in order to achieve comprehensive, conscious...
Ignacio Zañartu
Partner, PARALELA, Chile
By the end of 2013, PARALELA starts as an architecture and urban design studio with the association of Jose di Girolamo and Ignacio Zañartu, both architects graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica (UC), synthesizing their work and experience in different fields...
Romea Muryń
Architect / Urban Planner, Romea Muryn Studio, Poland
Romea Muryń is a Polish architect and urban planner. After receiving her master’s degree from the West Pomeranian University of Technology and her bachelor’s degree from Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, she worked for 8 years as an architect...
Jie Zhang
General Manager, Shanghai Office, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Inc., Shanghai, China
Jie Zhang is an award-winning architect and researcher. She has built Accra's first youth entrepreneurship awareness program, transferred low-tech aerial mapping technologies to informal settlements in Ahmedabad and initiated Opt, a design think tank focused on the future, where she...
Laurent Duport
Principal, C+D Architecture, France
Laurent Duport is a principal of C+D architecture and Assistant Professor in Practice and Theory of Architecture and Urban Planning, co-founder and board member of the Laboratory HITLab at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM, France). After studying...
Eliana Nigro
Architect and educator, head of computational design at Cobe and ELNI Studio founder, integrating tech with design
Eliana is an architect, educator and head of computational design at Cobe, participating in numerous lectures and podcasts, discussing how technology interacts with creative developments. During her professional experience, she has been involved in a large range of projects all...
Mateusz Adamczyk
Founding Partner, BUDCUD, Poland
Mateusz Adamczyk is a founding partner of BUDCUD - a contemporary studio from Poland operating within the fields of architecture and urban planning. Besides the design practice, architect's activities range from consulting challenging international projects, tutoring student workshops to taking...
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...
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