Recycling Resource of Furnitures for Reproductive Design with Support of Internet Community: A Case Study of Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks

Abstract

Nowadays, Ecology and/or Recycling are one of very important keywords to improve our daily lives efficiently and comfortably. Some products have been not-used by owners but they have still now been available. In such a case, Resource and Knowledge Recovery are very much useful at the viewpoint of Ecology and Recycling. We have tried to demonstrate how to recover some resource of furniture in order to achieve recycling and reproducing. We have utilized social networks based on Internet to perform information sharing and exchanging. This time, our resources are currently not-used furnitures kindly provided from some company which has stored several mounts of them. By means of social network based on Internet, target resources can be found and selected into the next recycle process. And then discussion how to utilize such resources are carried out for redesign and reproduction with help of professional viewpoint. Someone, who is interesting in such resources, do redesign and reproduce new products for the sake of recycling and/or resource recovery. This paper describes a case study of recycling resource of furnitures into reproductive design as a sample of Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks based on Internet.