Collectif Paysages de l’Après-Pétrole – The Power of Landscape to Achieve and Enrich the Transition

The Collectif Paysages de l’après-pétrole (Post-Oil Landscapes Collective, or PAP) is a think tank founded in 2015 that brings together agronomists, landscape architects, urban planners, architects, researchers, and land-use professionals committed to ecological transition.
Its core idea is to restore the landscape as a key driver of energy, ecological, and social transitions: beyond green technologies, it’s about inventing new inhabited spaces that are beautiful, coherent, and adapted to human needs—while supporting a sustainable local economy. Their approach emphasizes dialogue, connection with local resources, and attention to the history and identity of each territory.

By drawing on a network of local stakeholders (public authorities, students, associations) and on-the-ground work (farm monographs, atlases, rural surveys), PAP seeks to inspire, equip, and mobilize so that the ecological transition is not just technical or political, but also urban, democratic, and aesthetic—rooted in the lived experience of citizens.