Sun, Sep 13
|AKOMA at Oakland Avenue Urban Farm
Emerging Together: Celebrating Community, Art, Music & Creative Technology
Celebrate the Culmination of a Collective Artwork
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
AKOMA at Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, 9185 Goodwin St, Detroit, MI 48211, USA
About the event
Emerging Together marks the culmination of Mandisa Smith’s Cocooned Together, created in partnership with Mirrored Glass as part of Pulse of the City.
Over the course of a series of community wet-felting workshops, artists, neighbors, and participants have come together to build the Cocoon by hand—transforming individual pieces of felt, shared experiences, and biometric data into one collective work of art.
On September 13, the completed Cocoon will come fully to life.
Visitors will be invited to enter, gather around, and interact with the sculpture as embedded technology developed through Pulse of the City allows the work to respond to their presence and engagement in real time. The result brings ancient traditions of wet felting and textile-making into conversation with the body, contemporary technology, sound, and data.
2:00 PM — Community Gathering & Cocoon Experience
Guests are invited to gather, explore, and interact with the completed Cocooned Together installation.