Cooper Union

Designing with Coding Agents

Cost: $270.00

3 online session

Tuesdays, November 3–17, 2026

6:00 pm–9:00 pm

Every tool has its own grain. A brush favors gestures, a grid favors order, and a coding agent favors conversation. Each changes what it means to author something.

In this workshop, students use a coding agent as a creative collaborator. You describe, it executes, and you iterate back and forth. The course is about getting good at that exchange: learning how to steer the agent with prompts and guidelines as part of the design process.

Whether you've written code before or not, this course serves as an introduction to coding agents. It treats the agent as a new kind of design tool: one worth understanding, questioning, and making your own.

Materials

A computer with internet connection
Cursor Pro subscription ($20/month)

Class size is limited to 14 students.

Course Code: CA1126

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
“My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.
Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.