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
ARNE REISEGG MYKLESTAD
Architect / Partner, DARK Arkitekter AS, Norway
Architect and urbanist with experience from Copenhagen, London and Oslo. Arne studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture in Copenhagen , and has a master's degree in architectural theory from London Metropolitan University . Arne has...
Evren Başbuğ
Founding Partner, Studio Evren Başbuğ, Turkey
Evren Başbuğ was born in Ankara in 1981. He graduated from METU (Middle East Technical University) Faculty of Architecture in 2003. He earned a M.Arch degree from İstanbul Bilgi University, Architectural Design Graduate Program in 2009. Throughout his professional career,...
Ibrahim Joharji
Founder, INJ Architects, Saudi Arabia
Ibrahim Joharji is a Saudi architect, born in Mecca, who studied architecture and has a master's degree in engineering project management, in addition to many diplomas in the field of architectural design and engineering project management. Starting a career in...
Fatima Fernandes
Co-founder, CANNATÀ & FERNANDES, Portugal
She is a Portuguese architect. She studied at the Porto Fine Arts School (now University of Porto) from 1979 through 1986. She defended her PhD entitled THE ARCHITECTURE AT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LANDSCAPE at the ETSAMadrid. She teaches Architectural...
Siiri Vallner
Architect, Kavakava Architects, Estonia
Architecture office Kavakava was established in 2002 in Estonia. Company consists of a core group of architects and landscape architects based around one design philosophy but open for different co-workers and new ideas. Kavakava works are site-specific, highlighting the potentialities...
Juanjo Otero
Architect, MOL Arquitectura, Spain
I developed a lot of retail shops projects in ADOLFO DOMINGUEZ, including the realization of whole architectural projects, and supervising the construction process “in situ” in different countries as France, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Belgium, United States, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kazakstan,...
Konstantinos Labrinopoulos
Principal, KLab architecture, Greece
Konstantinos Labrinopoulos was born in 1970 in Athens, Greece. A graduate of the School of Αrchitecture, National Technical University of Athens (1994). He received his Master's degree in SCI-Arc, Los Angeles in 1996 In 2001 he co-founded Klmf and at...
Nigel Holmes
Owner, Explanation Graphics, United States
Born in England in 1942, Nigel Holmes moved to the US in 1978. After 16 years at Time Magazine, he started his own information design business, Explanation Graphics. His latest book (of 12) is "The Bigger Book of Everything" (2020)....
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