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
David Thompson
Principal and Founder, Assembledge+, United States
David Thompson is the founder and principal designer of Assembledge+, founded in 1997 in Los Angeles. With over 25 years of diverse architectural experience in design and management as well as in the production and construction aspects, David’s buildings –...
Sayjel Patel
CTO, Digital Blue Foam, Singapore
Sayjel is a Founding Assistant Professor at the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI) and the CTO of Digital Blue Foam (DBF), a software startup developing solutions for Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) to accelerate the world’s transition to...
Cecilia López Muiños
Architect / Co-founder, Muiños Otero López Arquitectura, Spain
Cecilia L. Muiños cofounded MOL Arquitectura as a multidisciplinary office of architecture and urban planning in 2002, specialized in the realization of building projects and landscaping, development of corporate identity, ephemeral architecture, buildings, industrial buildings, housing, retail and urban recovery.Each...
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...
Stefan Rier
Architect & Founder, noa* network of architecture, Italy
noa* is the essential expression of a collaborative work-ethos: the young team of architects & designers, led by founders Lukas Rungger and Stefan Rier and based in Bolzano (Italy) and Berlin (Germany), explores and examines interdisciplinary methods of design, continuously...
Dominique Perrault
Founder, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, France
Praemium imperial award winner (Japan), the French architect and urban planner Dominique Perrault is honorary professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is also the founder of DPAx, a multidisciplinary research platform exploring architecture from a...
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