On the page you see five options – from strong retention through undecided to strong return. Under the hood, we compress those into two numbers: a direction on the retain–return line and a strength of feeling. Those two values drive a two‑qubit circuit. It only has four basis states – 00, 01, 10, 11 – so each basis state corresponds to a cluster of nearby human options, a coarse “world” of governance rather than a single button.
This online interface is the current live form of Embodiment A of the Museums 3.0 framework: a web‑based governance field that lets publics explore how their positions on restitution coalesce into four coarse governance worlds. Here we show only the quantum‑inspired field and anonymised “why” fragments; heavier operations such as mesh transformation and printing remain in the offline studio.
Your five visible choices live in a richer human space, but the quantum layer forces us to see them through a lower‑resolution, probabilistic lens. That gap – between what we feel and what the machine can represent – is part of what this experiment is designed to expose.
The same tension runs through debates on “originals” and copies, from the Athens Parthenon to its full‑scale twin in Nashville.
Quantum Governance Studio
Live quantum snapshot of how visitors are thinking about the Parthenon and the Benin Queen Mother Head.
Parthenon Governance Field
How your collective choices are shaping the field around the Parthenon fragments.
Four governance worlds
- 00Status quo
- 01Asymmetric shift
- 10Reciprocal shift
- 11Radical reconfiguration
Quantum weather
Bars show how often each governance world appears when we “measure” the current two‑qubit circuit.
Choice → Circuit
Each vote updates two angles in this tiny circuit. When we measure it, we get a probability spread over the four worlds.
In this reduced two‑qubit model, each basis state (00, 01, 10, 11) stands in for a cluster of richer human scenarios – status quo, asymmetric shift, reciprocal shift, and radical reconfiguration of governance. The compression keeps the field legible while still exposing the gap between lived positions and what the machine can hold.
Waiting for your votes…
“Your reasons will appear here as the field gathers strength.”
Benin Queen Mother Field
How your collective choices are shaping the field around the Benin Queen Mother Head.
This field shares the same four governance worlds (00–11) as the Parthenon card on the left.
Waiting for your votes…
“Your reasons will appear here as the field gathers strength.”
Run so far
High-level snapshot of this field during the exhibition.