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
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...
Gaetano Ceschia
Partner, Calvi Ceschia Viganò architetti associati, Italy
CALVI CESCHIA VIGANÒ ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS was born from the experience of three professionals, Marco Calvi, Gaetano Ceschia, and Andrea Viganò, with the aim of networking different professional and territorial skills. The goal is to create a flexible structure capable of...
Karthik Dondeti
Founder Architect, Voxelscapes, Bangalore
B.Arch., M.Arch. (Design & Technology) GSD, Harvard University A practicing architect and founder of Voxelscapes - an architecture and creative coding studio based in Bangalore. He had worked with institutes in the fields of Building Technology and Design Computation which...
Ignacio Peydro
Partner / Principal, DOSIS, Spain
Ignacio Peydro is an architect registered in Spain and United Kingdom. He is a chartered member of RIBA. He studied Architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) and at the Bartlett in London, obtained a post professional advanced master...
Faramarz Parsi
CEO, “Emarat khosrshid” consultant engineers, Iran
Faramarz Parsi obtained his “MA in Architecture and Urban Planning” from Iran University of Science & Technology in 1992. After Cooperation with ARSEH and BAVAND consulting engineers in remarkable projects like Restoration of the historical building of “National Consultative Assembly...
Jaap Wiedenhoff
Partner, Senior Consultant, ABT, Netherlands
With an education in aerospace technology I was and still am, after 30 years, kind of an outsider in building engineering design. Whereas the typical approach to engineering design, my approach over this period has always been from physics to...
Dean D'Cruz
Principal Architect, Mozaic, India
Dean D’Cruz – is a Partner and Principal Architect in MOZAIC, a leading design firm based in Goa, involved in Urban Intervention, Architecture, Conservation, Product and Graphic Design. Mozaic strives to provide holistic solutions to its patrons. Our engagement often...
Zetao Chen
Co-Founder, Creative Director, FCHA, China
Master's Degree, BERLAGE INSTITUTE Architecture & Urbanism ,Netherlands Member of Shenzhen Architectural Design Review Expert Bank Zetao Chen 's design philosophy insists on essential thinking, facing every site and the core issues of every design, insisting on the design method...
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