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
Sanjay Prakash
Principal, SHiFT Architects, India
Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is an architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. Over the years, he has integrated all his work with the practice of new urbanism and...
Marta Nowak
Founding Principal, AN.ONYMOUS, United States
Marta Nowak is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS. She is a licensed architect and is currently the Senior Innovation Manager at Google R+D. Prior to establishing AN.ONYMOUS, Marta worked for multiple architecture offices including Safdie Architects in Cambridge, Toshiko Mori...
Carol Ross Barney
Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects, United States
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, has been in the forefront of civic design since founding Ross Barney Architects in 1981. Her career as an architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege....
Kim Lenschow
Co-Owner, lenschow & pihlmann, Germany
lenschow & pihlmann is a Copenhagen based architecture office founded by Kim Lenschow Andersen (1987, NO) and Søren Thirup Pihlmann (1987, DK) in 2015. They operate in a field of architecture ranging from small scaled installations and pavilions, to bigger...
Faramarz Parsi
CEO, “Emarat khosrshid” consultant engineers, Iran
Faramarz Parsi obtained his “MA in Architecture and Urban Planning” from Iran University of Science & Technology in 1992. After Cooperation with ARSEH and BAVAND consulting engineers in remarkable projects like Restoration of the historical building of “National Consultative Assembly...
David Premi
President + CEO, DPAI Architecture Inc, Canada
David brings 35 years of experience and knowledge in new construction, adaptive re-use and renovations across both public and private sectors. He is well known for his unique and skilled approach to participatory design and is held in high esteem...
Stefan Long
Principal Designer/Owner, MAGMAX Design, United States
I studied engineering, but prefer the hands on art/craft of fabrication of custom furniture.....Furntiture that people will enjoy for the rest of their lives. My son is Magnus; my daughter is Maxine. Hence the name.
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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