To mark our first anniversary, we sat down with Yacine Rezgui, Professor of Urban Intelligence at Cardiff University and AntifragiCity Coordinator, for a conversation about the project’s first year and the road ahead.

Yacine reflects on three key milestones: the completion of our Citizens’ Forums in Bratislava, Larissa, and Thessaloniki; the development of our equilibrium model; and the progress made in building a cohesive, aligned consortium across 13 partners and 8 countries.

He also explains why antifragility represents something genuinely new, and why the distinction from resilience matters for how we design cities.

“An antifragile urban mobility system should not simply return to its previous state after disruption, but learn from the stressors that have affected it and improve its capacity to deal with similar stresses in the future.”

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About AntifragiCity

AntifragiCity is a Horizon Europe project rethinking urban mobility across Europe. Through collaboration among 13 partners across 8 countries, the project designs mobility systems that don’t just recover from disruption but adapt, improve, and grow stronger because of it. By combining technology, social science, and real-world testing, AntifragiCity is building a roadmap for sustainable, inclusive, and antifragile mobility systems.

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