The student  choosed one memento from her or his household. This memento represents the self (el yo). There is a reason why this memento has been kept in the family for several years. What is its significance? What is the story behind? Who kept it? How does it represent part of who the student is, or is not? What are the cultural and social relationships between the generations that somehow are connected to that artifact?

From the perspective of its objectiveness, the artifact as a memento is unique and irreplaceable, as an object is one of the probably many thousands produced every day. In this Lab, students to find the various relationships between the memento (its meaning) and the object (its purpose) in our society and culture, or the other (el otro). These relationships are unveiled in this course through the ubiquity of photography, a visual tool used critically to decod[e] and deconstruct cultural stereotypes (Kellner, 2010 as cited by Alvaray, 2014).