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The Course in Urban Design for Cities in Transition provides an articulated study support system developed through tutoring activities, which operates on different levels of action.
These activities fall into the category of actions aimed at: supporting students in difficulty, preventing drop-outs or delays in the course of study, enhancing the specific teaching methods of the degree courses pertaining to the Department of Architecture, and in particular the laboratory ones (architectural and landscape design, construction and environmental design, planning, restoration, design and relief, etc.).
In this sense, for annual cycles and mainly by means of calls for proposals, the Department of Architecture has activated different tutor figures, who have followed one another over time to offer continuous support to individual study activities, both in relation to methodological aspects and to those more strictly related to content.
In relation to this field of action, 4 different tutor figures are currently active:
1.    Peer tutors selected from among the final-year students of the DARCH-related degree courses, acting mainly on study method aspects; they are activated through a call for tenders on POT funds and managed directly by the Department of Architecture (no. 6 for the academic year 2021-2022 and no. 2 for the academic year 2022-2023). Among the 6 tutors selected, one was specifically intended for the CdS in Urban Planning and City Sciences.
2.    PCTO/PNRR peer tutors selected from students throughout the University, acting mainly on aspects related to working methods; they are activated by means of a call for applications for PNRR funds to support the PCTOs activated by the Department of Architecture (no. 20 peer tutors for the academic year 2022-2023). For the academic year 2023-2024 the Department of Architecture is preparing the selection notice. The selected tutors will be operational in the first months of 2024. For the CdS in Urban Design for the City in Transition (UDCT) 12 peer tutors are foreseen, one for each PCTO/PNRR.
3.    Didactic tutors acting on subject areas indicated by the degree course from year to year (generally Mathematics and Design), which are activated and managed by the UDCT by means of a call for applications. For the academic year 2023-2024, the COT is preparing the general selection notice, for which the subject areas of the previous notice will be confirmed. The two tutors envisaged (for Mathematics and Design) for the CdS in Urban Design for the Transitional City will be operative in the first months of 2024.
4.    Learning Tutors, recently appointed, who work in the field of learning disorders, both certified and non-certified, also activated and managed by the COT (no. 1 for the academic year 2022-2023, 2023-2024 for all the degree courses pertaining to the Department of Architecture).

All the tutors‘ activities are directed and monitored by reference lecturers and are essentially carried out in the classrooms for teaching purposes, in the SOT room (Orientation and Tutoring Desk) or remotely, in the Teams room (’TUTORATO DARCH"), which has been specially activated. The aforementioned activities are accompanied by a register of the activities carried out and a final report drawn up by the tutor and signed by the reference teacher.