Summary of designing for new forms of governance

James Allen Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair and Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation.  He is editor-in-chief of the World Futures Review. He also taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

He received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. He did post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Ethics and Church History), Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Quantitative Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science).

Clement (Clem) Bezold, Ph.D., co-founded the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) in 1977 with Alvin Toffler and James Dator to encourage “anticipatory democracy” and foresight. During his four decades of leadership at IAF, he worked for international organizations and national governments, the largest corporations and non-profit
organizations, and communities on six continents.

In the process IAF developed the unique “Aspirational Futures” approach to foresight that stresses vision development and scenarios that explore expectable, challenging, and visionary space.

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