Should this project be in a Design festival?

Something that makes me wonder from the time I submitted this project to a design festival is if this project should be exhibited in a design festival. And this fact is something I am still anxious about. What makes me a bit more relaxed is that the feedbacks I got from people so far was good, and could see people interested in the project. But I wonder how people perceives this project in this exhibition.

I wonder if when general public go to a design festival, if they expect to find beautiful, digital, shiny and sometimes "eye-candy" design. Am I underestimating the public? Do I have a wrong idea of what the public expects? Sometimes I wonder if people have in mind that design is about the process, the concept. As applied art, design have the tools to make people question, see from another perspective, get something from that. I am not speaking about commercial design which has specific commercial goals to achieve and works together with marketing. I'm speaking about design that is exhibited as "this is the design we have at the moment", "this is what designers have been doing".

Particularly, I've been quite disappointed in a few design exhibitions I've been in the last months (not in the BDF though, let me make it clear), especially because I keep seeing special effects, projects that are more concentrated in the aesthetics and keeps in a superficial level. This repeats over and over again. This project is not about the aesthetics at all, apart from the fact that I do want to question that and say "yes, this was hand-made", "Yes, it's made by human to human in the most basic level."

So, I wonder... should this project be in an art exhibition instead, or does it make any sense being in a design exhibition? What do you expect when you go to a design exhibition?

Please, help me out, let me know your opinion.