In 2018, the Royal Commission of AlUla partially renovated the school to become the home of two significant training programmes in traditional arts, managed by the Prince’s School Foundation for Traditional Arts and Turquoise Mountain. In 2019 training programmes in the school started, with more than 60 students beginning 12-14 month long training programmes in ceramics, textiles, jewellery, geometry, palm-weaving, felt-dyeing and more.

At the same time, a more long-term vision of the school was being developed through the Master Planning process for the arts, culture and heritage assets of the development (also with Manifesto). The school was identified as the potential site for a Art and Design Centre. In the short-term however, the Madrasat Addeer awill become a community cultural centre to pilot future arts programmes and to provide a strong link between members of the AlUla community and the RCU arts and culture programme.

Manifesto developed the programme plan, for the Madrasat that sets out a vision and a plan for the school for 3 years (2021-2024) and defined :
-the positioning
-the target audience
-the architectural program and technical specifications
-the planning and activation
-the cultural programming plan
-the skill set development program
-the implementation plan
-the operational plan
-the scaling up