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
Mond Qu
Founder, United Make, Australia
Designer, narrative animator, and digital craftsman. Mond Qu is the founder of United Make, an experimental think-tank and multi-disciplinary studio based in Melbourne. Mond pushes the frontiers of design through the act of making; from deep materials research, visceral immersive...
Cristina Verissimo
Office partner, CVDB Arquitectos, Lda, Portugal
Plea Arq. Cristina Verissimo MSc. Arch. (Harvard University) Assistant Professor Practice Dal University Cristina Verissimo graduated in Architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura (FA-UTL) and has a MArchII Degree from GSD Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice...
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...
Mohamed Bennani
Principal Architect, Mohamed Bennani Architects, Morocco
Graduated in 2009 from the National School of Architecture of Rabat in Morocco, Mohamed Bennani created the Mohamed Bennani Architects workshop in 2012, aspiring to position himself as an actor on the regional and national architectural scene. Believing in a...
Gediminas Kirdeikis
Co-founder of VGAC, Course-coordinator in Lund University, Educational content creator on Youtube.
Based between Malmö, Sweden, and Vilnius, Lithuania, Gediminas is engaged in both design practice and education. He co-founded Very Good Architecture Company, which specializes in small-scale residential architectural design, providing innovative and practical solutions to clients. Since 2017, he has...
Dorin Ștefan Adam
C.E.O, Mânadelucru, Romania
Dorin Ștefan Adam is a lecturer architect at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania. He runs the architecture office mânadelucru which is an office which develops its activity mainly in the architecture and design area,...
Jason Hilgefort
Co-Founder, Institute for Autonomous Urbanism
Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist|architect who studied at the University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at RMIT. His work experience ranges from New York, Rotterdam, to Mumbai and includes working with Peter Calthorpe,...
Yudai Niimori
Co-founder / Architect, NIIMORI JAMISON, Japan
Yudai Niimori (MArch, Architect AAM) studied Design at the University of Shiga Prefecture and studied Architecture at the University of Italian Switzerland, Academy of Architecture Mendrisio. In 2018 Yudai Niimori and James Jamison (MArch) co-founded NIIMORI JAMISON, operating in both...
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