Interpretive and Information Boards

Today almost everything we toss out in front of visitors is called “interpretive”, yet most of the communications we give them are informational not interpretive! Something interpretative is helping you understand or make meaning. When you visit a national monument, you might not understand the symbolism until you read the interpretative signs that explain and interpret the monument for visitors. Interpretation is a communication process designed to reveal meanings and relationships of our cultural and natural heritage, to the public, through first hand involvement with objects, artifacts, landscapes, or sites. The communication process must:

This process is also the basics of a good advertisement. When you look at or read a provocative ad in a magazine or on TV, you are seeing interpretive principals at work. Interpretation has come from, and utilizes communication strategies and techniques from: advertising, marketing, consumer behavior, psychology of the audience, recreational learning theory, journalism, as well as other support areas (John Veverka).

Interpretive and information materials have been designed and produced for different geosites, museum and info centers of Qeshm Island UGGp, Aras Aspiring Geopark and Tabas Geopark. These places includes: