Just in time for this year’s application phase, we are reviving the format Circular after four years, offering prospective students insights into our research and teaching program, Urban Design, at HafenCity University. This fourth edition of Circular assembles the following contents: Reflecting back–moving forward features Questions and Answers between the current students and the teaching and research staff on connections, contingencies, and concerns of the former annual themes between 2019–2022 [3] . Every Circular provides a snapshot of our teaching formats; in this issue, we are introducing: WohnWissen [22] and Urban Types [23] as two of our elective courses focusing on practices of building, inhabiting, and planning. The center pages are, as usual, reserved for excerpts of the key readings of the study program emphasizing interdisciplinary, feminist, and posthuman connections to (urban) design. This year, we are featuring Shannon Mattern’s essay on Maintenance and Care [20] with the kind permission of Places Journal, calling attention to the integral value of everyday work of maintenance, caretaking, and repair in building more equitable and responsible spaces for restoration in cities. Fran Tonkiss’ article on Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city [18] engages with the European contexts of austerity urbanism, drawing on minor practices and small acts creating material spaces of hope in cities generously provided by the City Journal and Taylor & Francis. Donna Haraway, in an excerpt from Staying with the Trouble [15] , elegantly provokes an imaginary of the multispecies cosmopolitics, an approach to recuperate the centuries-old environmental destruction on the Terrapolis with the kind permission of the Duke University Press. We couldn‘t resist sharing ads from the upcoming publications Wohnen in Hamburg [36] and the two new books in our continuous series Everyday Urban Design [34] , our contribution to the edited volume Unsettled Urban Space, and finally, our long-years-in-the-makingbook about the project and process of Universität der Nachbarschaften Tom Paints the Fence [32]. A new addition to our Circular is the student-curated pages featuring the format UD-Salon [23] , a photo essay portraying the annual exhibition Revue 2022 [26] , and the excerpt from the Project Management seminar illustrating an alternative narrative to the future development of Hillgruber Areal in Hamburg’s Münzviertel [28] . Lastly, the inner cover is devoted to the upcoming annual theme: “Liminal Cities: Urban Life in-between”. Enjoy reading!