Model X as if Y

This is an investigation in translation.  The goal is to use representational techniques typically associated with one point of view and apply them to another.  The investigation may help you expose common denominators for linking systems that may - at first - seem unrelated or distinct.

Examples

Draw or model landscapes as a series of spatial volumes using the standard materials and techniques for modeling architecture.

Draw or model landscapes as if they are a wunderkammer (cabinet of curiousities).

Draw or model architecture as if a three-dimensional folded surface that supports activity, using materials and techniques that one would use for modeling landscape.

Draw or model spatial volumes the way you would model time, model time the way you would model spatial volumes.

Draw a sequece of spaces as if its a template for a complex cardboard box, with folds and tabs.

Draw the city and its regions as sprawling park. Draw the park as a tiny city.  Expose the continuities and entanglements with the adjacent metropolitan infrastructure; model the metropolis to expose its structures as an expansive field of inhabitable landscape.

Draw or model  the city as if a field of climatically controlled environments, model the park as if a small city within that field.

Draw or model animal space the way you would human spaces and then find relationships between them.

Possible Tools:

Drawing on paper.
Drawing on paper, cut and folded.
Adobe Illustrator
Nodebox

Other Inspiration:

Vogt, Gunther, Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Girot, Christophe, Vision in Motion, Representing Landscape in Time.

Chicago Parks to Reference:

Use any park as a constraint or reference, exhausting each environment.  (link)