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The initial plan for CGIS would have looked something like the Barker Center, which brought together Faculty in 12 humanities departments and consisted mainly of renovating the Harvard Union at a cost of $25 million.
He says that the initial estimate of the center’s cost—which had been the basis for naming CGIS after Sidney Knafel—was a vague “placeholder” approximation of how much the new building would cost.
Since the initial plan, the University completely rethought CGIS—twice.
“Sid was financing one new building” under the initial plan, Tiedemann says. “Now he is funding one new building.”
“I think that there was a tendency to try to make sense of it more quickly than possible. The repudiation of irony was an attempt to make sense of what happened. It was a presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the...