Kwantumfantum Multiversum

Light installation on the water for Amsterdam Light Festival, in which 1600 Amsterdam schoolchildren became inventors of the future.

In Amsterdam, a quantum computer is currently being built. A technology that could profoundly transform the future. This became the starting point for Kwantumfantum Multiversum, a light artwork developed by Beeldjutters at the invitation of Amsterdam Light Festival. The central question: what if you were allowed to invent the future? Through an extensive educational programme, more than 1600 pupils in Amsterdam classrooms got to work. They imagined inventions, drew them out and animated them. From future cities and technologies to new ecosystems and ways of living.

The children’s animations came together in a light installation on the water: sixteen LED screens on which a multiverse of possible futures unfolds simultaneously. Each invention moves through its own 3D world, visible to everyone walking along the canal banks. The project gives children creative ownership. Their ideas don’t stay on paper, but become part of a public artwork. Kwantumfantum Multiversum shows that children’s imagination is not a side note, but a serious force when it comes to thinking about what is yet to come.