Resilience Between Commitment and Revisability - Governing Long-Term, Large-Scale Transformations

In technology assessment and future studies, resilience and long-term governance are often considered characteristics of potential futures. However, in the context of mature infrastructure transformations, these characteristics assume a procedural dimension. Once goals such as climate neutrality and defossilization are widely accepted and institutionalized, achieving them requires continuous negotiation, coordination, and revision. Thus, the challenge lies in maintaining open futures and understanding how collective commitments are formed, maintained, and revised during these processes. From this perspective, resilience is the capacity of actors, institutions, or sociotechnical systems to sustain collective orientations for action while remaining capable of critically reevaluating the pathways through which transformation is pursued.