“Shape your symptoms” is a 3-hour design-led workshop organised to have people with experience of UTIs working together with healthcare experts to define information and communication modalities in order to best understand the disease and provide information to improve the treatment. During the workshop participants are invited to share their experience and discuss their symptoms supported by creative materials.

No skills are required. The workshop is free of charge and will be held in English. This project is part of a PhD research in Design. The College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Research Ethics Committee has approved this study. The purpose of the research is to define a method to involve people with experience of the disease and experts in improving UTI diagnosis and antibiotic prescription in order to tackle the problem of resistance development. The activity is meant to promote data literacy skills and abilities to support patients’ symptom explanations during consultation. Currently, the activity addresses women only. The gendered term woman refers to anyone who might be affected by UTI and AMR as individuals with a female body. This is because, as the below literature will explain, the higher prevalence of UTI cases is related to women mainly due to anatomic factors. However, it is acknowledged that not all people who have a female body consider themselves women, and people who identify as women do not always have a female body.