I just stumbled on the "Creative collaborations: craft and technology" event that Own-it is putting on this Thursday in London, and noticed that Olivier Geoffroy of Unto This Last is one of the presenters. It's a bit far for me to be able to attend but it sounded interesting so thought that I would pass it on to the UK contingent.
http://www.own-it.org/events/details/?eventId=305
Bill