In this episode — Part 2 of Italy series — I sit down with my friend Shiho, who’s currently doing her master’s in architecture in Italy. We talk about how design is taught in Europe, the differences we’ve noticed compared to Japan, and the creative freedom (or lack of it) we’ve each experienced in school and in practice. From studio life to government jobs, from model-making by hand to designing for a world shaped by natural disasters, this conversation gets personal — and a little bit frustr...