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
Antono Vaillo
Architect, Vaillo + Irigaray Architects, Spain
Antonio Vaillo y Juan L. Irigaray, arquitectos por la Universidad de Navarra, fundan Vaillo+Irigaray Architects en 1997. Juan L. Irigaray cuenta con una trayectoria destacada en la Gestión. Antonio Vaillo compagina el desarrollo de proyectos de Arquitectura con la Docencia...
Apeksha Gupta
Founder, The Right Brained, India
Founder and Creative Director. I have been associated with leading designers and young corporates for more than 8 years. After several internships, full-time jobs, team-lead roles and being a design consultant for some iconic brands, I setup The Right Brained....
Jason Hilgefort
Co-Founder, Institute for Autonomous Urbanism
Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist|architect who studied at the University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at RMIT. His work experience ranges from New York, Rotterdam, to Mumbai and includes working with Peter Calthorpe,...
Matt Cartwright
Founding Director, Twelve Architects Ltd, UK
Matt is a founding director of Twelve Architects, responsible for the design direction of the office. He has specialist experience in facilitating stakeholder engagement, developing strategic briefs, feasibility studies and designs our clients. Matt is the design director for the...
Víctor Muñoz Sanz
Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an assistant professor at TU Delft. His research focuses on the implications for architecture and urbanization of technological transitions. Muñoz Sanz was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft in the project ‘Cities of Making’, and fellow...
Sean Griffiths
Professor, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Sean Griffiths is a practicing architect, artist and theorist. He is currently the principal of the practice Modern Architect and is professor of architecture at the University of Westminster in London. Sean was a founding partner of the of the...
Ardit Jedrashi
Association of Architects of Kosovo
Ardit Jedrashi, a member of the Association of Architects of Kosovo, has been selected as the first choice for the jury of two upcoming architectural design competitions for kindergarten facilities in the Mati 1 and Kolovica neighborhoods. In the international...
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