Career
He is mostly known for founding of the Norwegian-based organization, The Future in Our Hands (Framtiden i våre hender). He is educated within advertising. Dammann"s book The Future in Our Hands raised social and environmental questions and put them in a much larger perspective than until then had been the norm.
Inspired by the interest for this book, in 1974 he initiated Framtiden i våre hender, today a world wide organisation with thirty partner organisations over the globe.
In 1978, the organization established The Development Fund (Utviklingsfondet). In 2003, The Development Fund established a youth-based affiliate, Spire.
Dammann is also known for his stay on the island of Samoa, described in the book With four children in a palm hut (1968), and also for starting the movement Project Alternative Future and Forum for System Debate. In advertising in the early 70’s he contributed strongly in the introduction of the orange “South” as a square in the logo for Company-op Norway.
His books have been translated to nine languages.
The Big Norwegian One Volume Encyclopedia Kunnskapsforlaget (Knowledge Publishing 2006).
