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.
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.
Our Jurors
Join a distinguished panel of design experts from around the world
Anne Marlene Rüede
Space Architect & Researcher, EPFL Space Center (eSpace), Switzerland
Anne-Marlene is a space and extreme environments architect from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne (EPFL), where she studied architecture and space technologies. She has worked on various projects, including satellite design, Mars human exploration mission planning and habitat...
Martin Schmidt Radic
Director, Schmidt Arquitectos Asociados, Chile
Schmidt3 is a Studio for Architecture led by Horacio Schmidt C., Horacio Schmidt R. and Martin Schmidt R. specialized in the design and development of projects such as urban, corporate buildings, houses, interior, furniture and industrial design. Created in 2001...
Walaiporn NAKAPAN
Architect/Computational Designer
She is a registered architect of the Architect Council of Thailand (ACT). Her main activities and researches are related to computational design, parametric design, free-form architecture, and digital fabrication. She had previously held positions as the Program Director of the...
Nicola Probst
Owner, Nicola Probst Architetti, Switzerland
Nicola Probst studied architecture at Supsi in Lugano, Switzerland, and at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S., where he received his Master of Architecture in 1999. Professional practice in the offices of Ivano Gianola in Mendrisio, Loom Studio in the...
Mathilde Marengo
IAAC Head of Studies, Senior Faculty, PhD Supervisor, Research Methodology Advisor
Mathilde Marengo is an Australian – French – Italian Architect, with a PhD in Urbanism, whose research focuses on the Contemporary Urban Phenomenon, its integration with technology, and its implications on the future of our planet. Within today’s critical environmental,...
Alexander Daxböck
Dipl.Ing., MAS ETH UD, Architect NL (B.A.), Univ.-Lecturer
Alexander Daxböck studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo and Zurich. Besides his interest on emergent forms of urban planning and urban development, he particularly focuses and researches on the value and importance of architectural drawings, illustrations and stills as communication tool...
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...
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