This Thursday, part of the Valldaura core team visited Marc Boada at his basecamp in Sant Celoni, in the middle of the Montseny mountain.
Boada, who is member of several scientific societies, as well as a widely experienced docent and well known for his task as a scientific divulgator, mainly within the mainstream population, received the team during an early, chilly and still snowed morning in the woods. Even if we were not in his studio – where magic happens- in Terrasa, Marc Boada was able to show us some of his research, as well as some of his amazing experiments, his annual charcoal pile, and all of the resources and inventions that he applied to his everyday life. From his 
personal, homemade forge where he extracts precious metals from every kind of rock and sand one could imagine, to his workshop where he works and transforms each material as he wishes, to how he understands, uses and rethinks the environment where he inhabits to improve both his life and his surroundings – it was a day of learning.
After the informal visit, a meeting was held where more details about the Inventors School in Valldaura where discussed, while more workshops and interventions kept appearing in the conversation. Undoubtedly, amazing things will happen as a result of the presence of a figure such as Marc Boada in Valldaura.
