Deloitte Foundry

Overlooking evergreen Forsyth Park, Deloitte Foundry is a cutting-edge digital design, research, and innovation studio that houses the SCAD Admission Welcome Center, the office for career and alumni success, Dr. B's coffee shop, the SCADamp professional presentation studio, and SCADpro, a high-performance creative consultancy where students generate business solutions for the world's most influential brands.

Deloitte Foundry signifies a new chapter in the pioneering partnership between SCAD, the preeminent university for creative professionals, and Deloitte, one of the nation’s leading professional services firms. Since 2019, Deloitte has worked closely with SCADpro to provide SCAD students with opportunities to work with company professionals as they address some of the most complex issues facing public sector organizations. More than 30 SCAD students who participated in these SCADpro collaborations were hired by Deloitte upon their assignment's completion.

Deloitte Foundry encompasses several new initiatives to spur innovative research, design thinking, and business solutions, including:

• The Deloitte Rapid Implementation Studio, where multidisciplinary teams of SCAD students and faculty engage real-world business challenges, developing groundbreaking, actionable solutions rooted in human-centered design.
• The Digital Frontier Studio, which focuses on research, design, and implementation strategies at the forefront of technologies including immersive reality, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and more.
• The Deloitte Concierge Recruiting Center, a dedicated, on-site resource for the mentorship and recruitment of high-performing SCAD students and alumni — creating an innovative new model for attracting top creative talent.

Learn more about SCAD's partnership with Deloitte, the world's leading service provider.

Previously known as Ruskin Hall, Deloitte Foundry resides in the space once used as Savannah's first hospital. The complex consists of three connected, architecturally distinct sections: the original 1819 Candler Hospital building, which was updated in 1877 to its current Italianate style; a three-story brick wing constructed in 1942 on the eastern side; and a large four-story wing built in 1955 on the north side of the building. After Candler Hospital relocated to its current site in 1980, the building sat in disrepair until 2012, when the Savannah Law School began restoration of the historic structure. After the law school's closure in 2018, SCAD acquired the former hospital complex and rededicated it as Ruskin Hall the same year.