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
Pawel Garus
Founder, mode:lina, Poland
mode:lina™ is an architectural studio created by Paweł Garus and Jerzy Woźniak in 2009 when both founders where 4th-year students at the architectural studies. Despite their young age mode:lina™ is a studio with many achievements: throughout the 13 years of...
Faith Okuma
Principal, Surroundings Studio, United States
Faith Okuma is a principal of Surroundings Studio in Santa Fe, NM. Surroundings Studio is founded on planning and designing exceptional projects that creatively address environmental, social and fiscal challenges and opportunities. Faith’s career has included projects across the nation...
Miguel Angel Lira
Founding Partner & Co-Director, lira.velasco.arquitectos, Mexico
Architect and Postulant to Master in Philosophy with the thesis: "The aesthetics of the music of Iannis Xenakis in the architecture of the twentieth century" both by the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has collaborated in the offices Serrano, Serrano, Nava; Albin...
Chris Wilkinson
Founding Director, Wilkinson Eyre, United Kingdom
Chris Wilkinson is the founder of WilkinsonEyre. After working in several leading architectural practices, he set up his own practice Chris Wilkinson Architects and achieved success with two Jubilee line projects, Stratford Station and Stratford Market Depot, as well as...
Alessandro Melis
Director, Heliopolis 21, United Kingdom
Alessandro Melis, RIBA ARB AOU, is a professor of architecture innovation at the University of Portsmouth and the Director of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities in the UK. In 2019, he was appointed by the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage...
Fran Silvestre
CEO, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, Spain
Fran Silvestre, architect in the specialty of building (Honors) by the ETSA of Valencia and in the specialty of Town Planning (Honors) by the TU/e (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), PhD at the Polytechnic University of Valencia within the program project from...
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...
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...
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