The Big H and Little h of Hospitality - Siobhan Barry - Episode # 033
Defining Hospitality
English - December 22, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHome & Garden Leisure hospitality design interior design hospitality hospitality industry custom furniture hotels hotel hotels and resorts capital expenditures capex Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Siobhan Barry, Principal, Design Director, Hospitality Practice Area Leader North East at Gensler has been creating what she refers to as “Instagram moments” for over 20 years. She shares her outlook on #hospitality and her journey through the industry. Siobhan discusses with host Dan Ryan how hospitality can split into two different segments and how we can bring hospitality to all aspects of life.
Takeaways:
As a designer, you have to create moments that are memorable for people. You want it to be captured and remembered, and this is referred to as an “instagram moment”Designers can find a way to make people feel certain emotions when entering a room.There is the “Big H” and “Little H” hospitality. The Big H is hotels, restaurants and the likes while the little h is everything else ranging from hospitals to stadiums.When you think of the best times you’ve had, they weren’t digital and probably had some element of spontaneity to them. After 9/11, Siobhan went into business with a friend to open a nightclub to try and lift people’s spirits and provide for them a place to go.Designing for celebration is a key aspect when thinking about creating a space. You want the room to feel joyous and full of energy.Travel is making a comeback now and it is now seen as a basic human need, along with having new experiences.To create the most innovation, you have to be willing to push the boundaries and try something different and unique.
Quote of the Show:
8:14 “I call it big H hospitality and small h hospitality. And what I mean by that is there's sort of the realm of the industry that we know, so that's the big H. I think of that as hotels, restaurants, spas, cruise ships, the things that we kind of know are in this industry category.
And then there's this small H which to me is everything else where, or every other arena in which our clients, our customers are, are expecting a different way of engaging than they have in the past been used to.”
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhan-barry-93072643/Website: https://www.gensler.comInstagram: Siobhanjthomas
Shout Outs:
0:43 Product Runway
1:20 ICRAVE
14:23 Sid’s Gold
16:11 Blondie
16:11 Gwen Stefani
16:21 Dusty Springfield
16:25 Patsy Cline
16:33 Fitz Gold
17:07 Calvin Klein
19:05 Swan Reserve
21:01 Lionel Ohayon
22:08 Prada
22:11 Madison Avenue
24:21 Dorsia
25:54 Crowbar
30:13 Airbnb
Ways to Tune In:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPXApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1sAmazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8c904932-90fa-41c3-813e-1cb8f3c42419Podbean: https://www.defininghospitality.live/Youtube : https://youtu.be/yiwVCXTHD1g