The Alpine Review Information

The world around us seems as turbulent as it has ever been. Tremors across industry, across culture, across the environment, are profoundly reshaping everything we know. But it’s too easy to get caught up in the noise of now and miss what it will all mean when the urgency fades. We started The Alpine Review a decade ago as an attempt to understand those tremors from a long-term point of view — to look at how our immediate moment is shaped by the past and will shape us in the future. The output of that process was a high-design, conceptually bold, ad-free and mammoth-sized print magazine which we called “a compendium of ideas for a world in transition”. After three successful issues, we thought the project had fulfilled its mission and it entered a happy, self-imposed hiatus in 2016. Since then however, we’ve observed the development of a number of worrying dynamics which make our future seem ever more fragile and uncertain. Our intuition ten years ago was a world rebalancing. Now it seem humanity might be facing a more dramatic faith, unless we find a way to complete a massive redesign effort of our systems and institutions. This is why we’ve decided it was time to bring back The Alpine Review for another tour of active duty. Step one was to create a digital home for the project, making all the existing content available for those who have followed us along in our journey and to newcomers who might not have come across the printed magazine before (in this case, welcome!). The second step will come later in 2022, when we determine what our role can and should be in our evolving information ecology.