The lovely as ever We Make Money Not Art drew my eye to this piece by David Adjaye at Manifesta 7…
… the premise being “If Europe were condensed into one piece and combined as one cell, what would be left behind as residue? Two extremes: a very dense condition and a big void.” using a process of “… extract[ing] information from the capital cities of the European Union and condensed [them] into a single entity”.
I like the idea behind taking cities and trying to smoosh them together, joining them up in non-accidental ways. I’m sure there are other examples of fitting various maps together to form a whole, but they’re escaping me at the moment.
Regardless, photo attribution-share alike by we-make-money-not-art, [Via: The unusual suspects of Manifesta: Pirate Bay and David Adjaye]
The one other example that comes to mine is Pangea. Take all the continent and line them up to form the supercontinent. Yeah I know, plate techonics comes into play too with it but still same concept.