I came to the Field Stations for the Future network through my research on doing less. My work in the IDLE project (Investigating Doing Less in Everyday Life) starts from the observation that most people feel too busy — caught in a culture that treats constant activity as a virtue and rest or slowness as failure. This has real consequences for our collective capacity to respond to the crises we face. You cannot reimagine the future when you are running on empty. The FSF concept resonates with what IDLE research keeps surfacing: that transformation requires time, presence, and permission to slow down — and that these are not soft prerequisites but structural ones. I am interested in how field stations can become sites where alternative rhythms of life are not just imagined but actually practised, and I am keen to contribute both the empirical grounding of IDLE’s findings and a broader sociological lens on what it takes to make slowness, sharing, and collective care genuinely possible in everyday life.