Nicole Lowe

The MakerSpace

theMakerSpace is about lowering the barriers of entry for people to express their creativity in a physical way. It is about people getting together, working creatively, inspiring each other, engaging with new technology, and building a "bottom-up economy". The fact is that the Maker Movement is happening. Technology has evolved to the point where someone can, in their local maker space, create many items of better quality and more meaningfully than mass production has previously been able to deliver. And everyday more people are joining the movement as they realize the creative potential within themselves. International commentators are going as far as to call it "the new industrial revolution" (read Chris Anderson). MAKERs make things, using both cutting edge technology and age old methods, or often a combination of both. Makers find value in making something by hand, giving a physical product more value because of the thoughtful, careful and useful way it is designed and made. Makers are not aiming for mass market for their product, they are simply expressing something they love, and in the process creating something worthwhile for the niche that they represent. Makers Openly share resources, expertise, equipment and encouragement because they choose to believe that we can do more together than we can apart. theMakerSpace is working hard to develop a community of "MAKERs" by attracting engineers, designers, architects, creatives and tinkerer's to a creative playground equipped with cutting edge low volume manufacturing technology that help lower the barriers to entry for people to express their creativity in a physical way. Our headquarters are in Durban, South Africa at the Foundry, which is located at 43 Station Drive. We have Lasercutters, 3D printers, and Small CNC's. We need you. Come and visit, attend one of our classes, and Make things at theMakerSpace!