About Us

Fabrication Africa is inspired by Readymade’s collaboration with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) Professor, Neil Gershenfeld. Prof. Gershenfeld explains in his book, FAB, that instead of sending megatons of products around the world from factory to consumer, we could be sending electronic data around the world in seconds and making the products we need in our basements using personal fabricators.

To prototype this idea he established a global network of fabrication laboratories (FABlabs) in cities from New York and Barcelona, to Pabal (India), Soshanguve (South Africa) and Sekondi-Takoradi (Ghana). In these laboratories there is free public access to all manner of ways to create new objects.

The NEST bowl is Fabrication Africa’s way of bringing this vision to life. Working with the FABlab in Soshanguve, South Africa, Fabrication Africa created the NEST as the start of a range of distinctive new products which embrace social conscience and precision technology.