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We live in rapidly changing times, yet we experience unchanging human needs for community, ritual, reflection, inspiration, and celebration. We search for meaning and purpose as people always have.
Participating in our communities as members, leaders, and designers, allows us to share this search with fellow seekers and help meet each other’s needs. Since our founding, environments for these activities by Newman have brought and continue to bring people together, energizing and enriching community life.
Libraries can be gathering places, catalysts for renewal, places to spur innovation, and environments that encourage discourse. They are all gateways to the digital world and centers of communities, bringing together people with a common interest in finding out more. Newman's library experience includes renovations, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse, new buildings and additions.
Civic places, from city halls to community centers, stadia, public parks and squares, and streetscapes catalyze urban revitalization, break down barriers, encourage civic participation, and promote health and wellness. They help people participate vigorously in public life for the health and vitality of their communities.
Cultural facilities, whether theaters, performance halls, and auditoria or museums and teaching studios weave the arts into the fabric of community life for both entertainment and self-realization. They awaken our senses, spread beauty, invite participation, inspire joy, and release the creative potential of the human spirit.
Sacred spaces, from traditional churches and synagogues to multi-faith centers, non-denominational sanctuaries, and meditation gardens provide retreats from daily life for reflection and renewal. Here, people of all faiths and no faith can share questions and concerns, discover new perspectives, find mutual understanding and respect, and celebrate their shared humanity.
These overlapping areas of our practice build bridges between neighborhoods and among people of different beliefs and identities with a common purpose: addressing unchanging human needs in changing times. We address these needs by drawing on timeless archetypes that continue to instill awe and wonder, reinterpreting them to create new building types that encourage the search for meaning and purpose by a society reinventing itself.
“ May the friendships forged here transform us into our best selves, grow us in respect, and, through us, change the world.Chaplain Janet Fuller, Elon University (Speaking at opening of The Numen Lumen Center)
