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
Alessandro Melis
Director, Heliopolis 21, United Kingdom
Alessandro Melis, RIBA ARB AOU, is a professor of architecture innovation at the University of Portsmouth and the Director of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities in the UK. In 2019, he was appointed by the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage...
Rui Palha
Administrator, Rui Palha Photography, Portugal
Rui Palha (born 1953), started photographing at the age of 14 and is one of the most respected street photographers in the world. He received the prestigious "Best Work of Photography" award by the SPA (Portuguese Society of Authorities) with...
Djordje Stanojevic
Architect & Researcher
Djordje Stanojevic is an architect and researcher, with a strong focus on robotic fabrication and the development of innovative building systems. B.Sc. IUAV in 2011 and winner of the Touch Fair Architecture Competition. M.Sc ITECH at the University of Stuttgart...
Zhong Ling
Founder, DUTS design, China
Chinese architect Zhong Ling is the founder of DUTS design. Zhong Ling studied Architecture in ENSAPLV from the well-known French architect Eric Dubosc and founded DUTS design in 2010. He is a French National Registered Architect and has got HMONP...
Ishan Grover
Design Director, Karan Grover & Associates, India
Design Director at KGA with learning in the Liberal Arts and Masters in Architecture from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. KGA as a practice has been passionately advocating the need to look at culture and heritage for clues to the...
Asaf T. Mann
Partner Architect, Mann Shinar Architects, Israel
Asaf T. Mann is a Partner Architect at Mann Shinar Architects, one of Israel’s leading architectural firms, leading the design and construction of award winning projects such as the recently opened Ramon Int’l Airport in Timna, Israel; the National Library...
Ben Gitai
Owner/Partner, Gitai Architects, Paris, France
Ben Ori Gitai was born in Paris in 1985. In October 2007 he began studies at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, La Villette, and focused on social housing and design. In July 2012, he obtained his Diploma of Architecte...
Meritxell Inaraja
Architect, Meritxell Inaraja ARQUITECTA SLP, Spain
Meritxell Inaraja, born in Vic (Barcelona) February 26, 1968, is a Catalan architect. Inaraja graduated in Architecture from the Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), in 1994. A year later she earned a postgraduate degree...
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