ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the design tutorial. This is probably the most common method of learning to design in the studio. However, it turns out to be a sophisticated and complex phenomenon. When tutoring students on their design process tutors can play a number of roles. These can sometimes be hard to recognise but they carry with them quite different meanings. The roles discussed here are ‘teacher’, ‘consultant’, ‘master’ and ‘parrot’. These roles are all explored and examples given of how they work by examining protocols of real-life recorded tutorials. Readers are urged to learn to recognise which roles a tutor might be playing and why, and thus learn how to manage the tutorial themselves.
