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How can we give ‘Children's Geographies’ away?

That great psychologist George Miller talked about giving psychology away. Most of us spend our time ‘creating new knowledge’ without then spending the time making it available to those beyond our discipline who could use what we find. I am an environmental psychologist who feels it keenly; and I am using this feature of Children’s Geographies to ask a practical question or two about how we can best and most effectively make what we know (or believe we know) about the research on children’s geographies, environmental psychology (etc.) available to architects, planners, space managers, administrators and so on: indeed, to anyone who has care of places for children. Within our academic journals, such as Children’s Geographies, the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the like, we have been publishing studies on such a wide range of topics of potential use and interest to the design professions. Similarly, colleagues have promoted excellent research through meetings of the IBG/RGS, (Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society), the AAG (Association of American Geographers), IAPS (International Association for People-Environment Studies), EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association, etc. But we are largely talking to ourselves, I feel. We have this substantial, well-researched literature . . . and how much of it is being used by the professions, or is even known about by them? How impenetrable and un-usable is what we have created? Scanning the web just now, I came across two equal and opposite reactions from that small proportion of professionals who do mention us: