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
Stephen Ritz
Author, Educator, TED Speaker, Founder, GreenBronxMachine
Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx educator who believes that students shouldn’t have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one. Moving generations of students into spheres of personal and academic successes which they had...
Etan Kimmel
Co-Founder, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
1985 Graduate of the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and TH Delft 1986 Co-founder of Kimmel-Eshkolot Architects 1993 "Rokach Prize" for Architecture 2002-2005 Senior Lecturer at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, Haifa 2006-2009 Lecturer...
Gëzim Kastrati
Architect
One of the great professionals in the field, with long experience and a significant number of projects of various typologies, both domestically and abroad.
CHRIS BOSSE
Director, LAVA, Australia
Chris Bosse is director of LAVA Asia Pacific based in Sydney, Australia. Chris Bosse is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. Educated in Germany and Switzerland, he worked with several high-profile European architects before moving to Sydney. Whilst...
Gijo Paul George
Co-Founder and Principal, Studio Toggle, Hawally, Kuwait
Gijo Paul George Chembakassery is the Co-Founder and Principal Architect of Studio Toggle. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Kerala (T.K.M.C.E) in 2007. From 2007-2009 he worked with multiple practices of varying sizes in India and Kuwait while...
Iman Ansari
Principal, AN.ONYMOUS, United States
Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. He is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School. His work explores the application of scientific method and experimental approaches towards architecture and...
Martin Ostermann
Prof. + Director, Magma architecture, Germany
Prof. Martin Ostermann studied architecture at the Technical University in Aachen, the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association in London. He started his professional career as a senior architect at Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin where he was...
Joe Fisher
Principal Architect, Joe Fisher Architect, United States
Principal Architect and founding member of Joe Fisher Architect. We specialize in small-scale and high-performance custom residential architecture. As an architect and project manager, I worked directly with clients, consultants, engineers, construction managers, builders and in-house artisans to coordinate a...
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