A Scheme of Resource Discovery in Reproductive Design Education: Trial Evaluation of SNS-contributed Design Education

Design education is one of the most creative topics and themes in Higher Educations and Trainings. Students who are related to some kinds of design education course are requested to learn not only knowledge but also techniques. The former is necessary to design some objects, while the latter are essential to utilize tools as well as equipments. It is important to provide combination of knowledge (= what is) and techniques (= how to) in efficient and effective ways. One of the most attractive approaches to design in Ecological and/or Recycling methods is to utilize and discover reproductive tools and reusable resources. It is a good way to create some reproductive objects. Some furnitures, for example, are considered to be worth enough to be reused and reproduced in such recycling methods. This paper focuses how to utilized recycling resources and to obtain useful knowledge for design education. And it also presents a practical scheme to utilize Resources, Knowledge and Techniques for Design Education in order to retrieve and discover in the network environment. The paper challenges to visualize practical scheme for design process by means of comparison between usual steps in the normal design education and special steps using Internet and network community. And it summaries to be important for design education to visualize scheme for resources and knowledge discovery through network community such as some kinds of social network.