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Interpretation arises from uncertainty, so to some degree, you can control whether there will be multiple interpretations or not. Interpretation is what happens when you ask the reader to "fill in the blanks", and there is enough material around those blanks to have an idea of what might be in there.
Achieving multiple interpretations is a complicated art, since you need to know when it is necessary to give the reader more clues, or when to cut down on them. A blank too wide will produce no interpretations since the reader has not enough material to imagine what could be in there, and will just make them feel lost, while a blank too narrow will often end up in a single, probably "correct" interpretation.
But the blanks need not be necessarily completely blank themselves. Ambiguity here is your friend, and if some of the clues are blurry, it may give people probabilistic insight into the "correct" (although I may add it is probably better if you do not even know the answer yourself) interpretation, while also misleading them if they decide to consider other interpretations. So to speak, if you write a clue to be easy to interpret in different ways, let's say two for simplicity's sake, your reader will have to consider what lies in the blank if interpretation A is true, and what lies in the blank if interpretation B happens to be true. Add several of these ambiguous clues, and the reader will have to consider the cartesian product of all possibilities, and pick one or more based on the reader's subjective connotations.
One last possible technique is using symbolism. Symbolism ofuscates true meanings, and its exact interpretation often depends on the reader's point of view, as Mark Baker very correctly stated in his answer. By using symbols as clues, you make whatever is in the blank blurry and open to interpretation.
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