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
Oleg Shapiro
Partner, Wowhaus bureau, Russia
Partner in the architectural bureau Wowhaus (Moscow, Russia); Candidate of Architecture, Co-author of a training course on the design of public spaces at the University of Architecture MARCH; city activist. The author of more than 60 architectural projects in Moscow...
Stefan Jauslin
Founding Partner, Vehovar & Jauslin, Switzerland
Swiss Born Stefan Jauslin graduated from ETH Zurich in 1992. He then formed his own practice as architect and set designer while teaching “Capturing and Representing Space by means of Video” with Rudlof Manz at ETH Zurich from 1992 to...
Giacomo Costa
Artist, Giacomo Costa, Venice
Giacomo Costa was born in 1970 in Florence, where he lives and works. He teaches photography at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Catanzaro and his work was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, at the 13th...
Tim Rowley
Associate Director, Walters & Cohen Architects, United Kingdom
Tim Rowley studied architecture at the University of Plymouth in the UK, graduating with a thesis earning him a nomination for the RIBA Silver Medal. He completed his Part 3 at the University of Westminster and worked for John McAslan...
Peter Pichler
Architect, Peter Pichler Architecture, Milano, Italy
Peter Pichler was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1982. He studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in the US at the University of California (UCLA). In 2008 he graduated with distinction in the masterclass of Zaha...
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...
Paul Laurendeau
Architect, Atelier Paul Laurendeau, Canada
Paul Laurendeau is an award-winning architecture studio established in Montreal since 1995. He is interested in creative work of all scale with clients that seek a personal vision. In 2003, he was awarded a Prize of Excellence from the Order...
Pedro Cavaco Leitão
Co-Founder and Principal Architect, Moradavaga, Portugal
Moradavaga is a collective born from the collaboration of architects Manfred Eccli (Bolzano, Italy, 1981) and Pedro Cavaco Leitão (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Based in Kaltern/Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal), Moradavaga started working in 2006 around the issues of vacant spaces,...
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