Not as a theory. As a living experiment — practiced daily across three continents, by people who chose to build something different together.
In 2001, a Chinese thinker named Xuefeng began writing about a question that wouldn't leave him: where is human civilization actually heading? Not in the abstract — but concretely, structurally, in the way people live and organize their lives.
His answer took shape over years of writing, community-building, and lived experiment. He called it Civilization 3.0 — the idea that humanity is in transition from a civilization organized around survival and competition, toward one organized around the flourishing of life itself.
In 2009, the first physical community — the Second Home — was established in China. Over the following decade, the model took root and expanded. In 2019, a new home opened in Mae Tha Ton, Chiang Mai, Thailand. New nodes followed: Vancouver, Korea. In 2026, the project turns toward Europe.
This is not a think tank or a movement. It is a set of places where the ideas are tested by being lived.
Second Home Thailand Branch. Organic farming, shared living, and daily practice of the Civilization 3.0 principles since 2019.
North American node. Content creation, cultural exchange, and community for those outside Asia.
East Asian node, bringing the Second Home model to a new cultural context.
The next community, planned for 2026. We are currently seeking co-builders to help establish the European home.
Civilization 3.0 is not organized around acquiring resources or winning competitions. It is organized around the question: what does it mean for life to flourish?
Ideas are only tested by living them. The Second Home communities are not demonstrations of a theory — they are the ongoing attempt to get it right.
We see artificial intelligence not as a threat to manage, but as a new kind of participant in the civilizational transition — one that can carry much of what humans have carried alone.
"Humans and AI coexist, the world is one family, there is no war, and resources are shared. This is not a utopia. It is the next practical step."→ Read Xuefeng's essays in the Articles section
Civilization 3.0 is not an organization with a headquarters and a CEO. It is a living community — researchers, farmers, artists, parents, and seekers from more than thirty countries who have chosen, in different ways and at different scales, to build something different together.
Some live in the communities full-time. Others contribute from a distance. What holds them together is not a membership card but a shared conviction that the way things are organized now is not the only way they can be.