How do you do interpretation? In exhibits? On panels? Labels, plaques, historic markers? Why don’t you ditch the traditional signage, go rogue, and…

• Take interpretation outside the museum? Into the community? To the streets, corners, and little back alleys?
• Ditch the engraved plaques in favor of slapdash signs? Handwritten? Collaged? In haiku? Decorated with copious amounts of glitter?
• Commit to not telling any story you’ve already told before?
• Make an label for a piece of graffiti? Create the graffiti? Create the graffiti and then make a label?
• Yarn bomb your community with stories instead of string? Or both?
• Create stories about objects and spaces? It’s not true, but it’s so good it should be?
• Make interpretation fluid? Something that changes every week? Every day? Every hour?
• Interpret the things that never get interpreted? A stretch of sidewalk? A lamppost? A patch of grass? Find the magical in the seemingly mundane?
• Interpret the same space through a different lens every week? History? Science? First-person? The perspective of a cat?
• Give the community the tools to be your collaborators? Your partners in crime?
• Create “DIY” interpretive labels that can be customized? Hand them out at events? On street corners? Make them available online?
• Find new sources of information? Voices who haven’t had the chance to speak?