Techniques and solutions are provided for grouping of applications, including application content, or other content useable by a computer-implemented process. In particular, a consolidation space is provided as a lightweight mechanism for this purpose. Identifiers are received for multiple landscape elements, where a landscape element can be an application, application content, or other content. A given landscape element has a type and has one or more artifacts. A consolidation space is generated for at least first and second landscape elements having a first type. A consolidation artifact is generated in the consolidation space, where the consolidation artifact references respective first and second instances of a first artifact in the first and second landscape elements.