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
Seyhan Ozdemir Sarper
Co-Founder / Head of Design, Autoban, Turkey
Seyhan ÖZDEMİR SARPER Born in İstanbul, in year 1975. Graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Architecture Faculty in year 1998 and together with Sefer Çağlar, they have established Autoban in year 2003. Autoban, being a multi-disciplinary design studio, carries...
Zhong Ling
Founder, DUTS design, China
Chinese architect Zhong Ling is the founder of DUTS design. Zhong Ling studied Architecture in ENSAPLV from the well-known French architect Eric Dubosc and founded DUTS design in 2010. He is a French National Registered Architect and has got HMONP...
Mirko Daneluzzo
Co-Founder & Head of Design, Nyxo Visionary Design Fz-llc, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mirko’s cross-disciplinary design agenda has been professionally initiated with NYXO, the studio co-founded with his brother Michele and continues with his activity as a founding professor at the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation. He received his Master's degree in...
Sebastian Schmaling
Partner, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, United States
Sebastian Schmaling is the Fitzhugh Scott Distinguished Professor in Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and founding principal of Johnsen Schmaling Architects, a design and research studio widely recognized as an important voice in contemporary American architecture and dedicated to...
Saija Hollmén
Vice Dean for Art and Creative Practices, Aalto University, Finland
Saija Hollmén is a Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Architecture and Vice Dean for Art and Creative Practices at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. She holds a doctoral degree in architecture, her research interest covering topics of...
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...
Ajax Law Ling Kit
Founder & Design Director, One Plus Partnership Limited, Hong Kong
In only 15 years’ time, One Plus Partnership has been awarded 660 international awards. As the design director, Ajax Law showed his exceptional design talent at a young age. In 2014, he was one of the selected awardees of the...
Katsushi Goto
Architect and Director, Squareworks
Katsushi Goto is practising architect/urbanist based on Mumbai and Tokyo, the director of design and research firm, Squareworks, Mumbai and a partner of architectural practice apartment co., ltd. Tokyo. Recently completed project #7 Southlands has been nominated for INSIDE award,...
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